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of the Newcastle Museum ' (pp. 298, 308), and afterwards in 

 the ' Zoological Journal ' (iii. p. 497). The second specimen 

 was recorded in 1837, by Mr. J. C. Dale, in the ' Naturalist ' 

 (ii. p. 275), and is said to have been killed in Dorsetshire. 



Soon after the time last mentioned, I was informed by 

 Mr. Plumptre Methuen that a specimen killed near Birming- 

 ham was in his possession, and subsequently Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney sent me word that a male example had been found 

 dead on the beach at Yarmouth, September 21st, 1811. Mr. 

 Morris mentions, on the authority of Mr. E. Cole, one shot 

 at Margate, in September, 1812, and in September, 1814, 

 two specimens, one old, the other a young bird of the year, 

 and both then unskinned, were sent for my inspection by 

 Mr. Gardner. These were said to have been shot in the 

 Isle of Sheppey. The Strickland Collection in the Museum 

 of the University of Cambridge contains an example labelled 

 "Britain, 1846" ; but no further particulars of its locality 

 are known. About September 15th, 1852, one was shot 

 near Whimple, in South Devon, as recorded by Lord Lilford 

 (Zool. p. 3709). A hen killed at Worthing, May 2nd, 1853, 

 is mentioned by Mr. J. W. Stephenson (Zool. p. 3907) and a 

 cock killed early in May, 1856, near Lowestoft (Zool. p. 5149), 

 is also in Mr. Gurney's collection. Mr. Cecil Smith notices 

 one said to have been killed in Somerset in 1856 and now 

 in the Exeter INIuseum, and Mr. H. Pratt records (Zool. 

 p. 8281) a cock caught at Brighton, October 1st, 1862, 

 which is in Mr. Borrer's collection. Captain Hadfield 

 in the ' Zoologist ' for 1865 and the two following years, 

 gave a series of observations made at different times on 

 a Blue-throated Warbler which, he says, frequented a locality 

 in the Isle of Wight from at least February, 1865, to Septem- 

 ber, 1867, being for part of the time joined by a second. 

 Finally Mr. Gray has informed the Editor that a cock was 

 caught on board a fishing-boat off Aberdeen, May 16th, 1872. 



Whether there is more than one species of Bluethroat is 

 a question which has been long debated and cannot yet be 

 deemed settled. Three forms are found, the males of which, 

 when in breeding-plumage, can be readily distinguished, and two 



