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late G. W. Jalland ; it was on a hedge, and the observer 

 approached to within two or three yards' distance (Jalland, 

 in lift.). 



Kilnsea, 8th October 1903 A young male example was 

 " telegraphed," and taken to Mr. P. Loten, in whose posses- 

 sion I saw it a few days afterwards ; on the same day Mr. 

 Badcock, of the Spurn Lighthouse, informed me he saw one 

 in the garden at Spurn. The Kilnsea specimen is now in 

 the York Museum. 



The only other part of the county which can lay claim to 

 this species figuring in its list, is the low-lying tract between 

 the Teesmouth and Redcar, where I have positive information 

 as to its occurrence on more than one occasion in the month 

 of September ; I noted one on the Breakwater at the Tees- 

 mouth on 20th September 1883 (this is mentioned by Mr. 

 J. H. Gurney, Transactions of Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists 

 Society, 1884, iii. 579-601, and Fifth Migration Report, p. 38). 



It is quite possible, even probable, that this Bluethroat 

 may be a regular autumn migrant to our shores when on 

 passage from its summer haunts in Scandinavia, though 

 often overlooked in the crowds of other birds which pass 

 along the coast, or mistaken, from its red tail, for a Redstart, 

 a species which it closely resembles in habits as well as plumage. 

 It has hitherto escaped notice in the spring on its return to 

 its breeding quarters in N.W. Europe. 



Herr Gatke stated that it is common on Heligoland, both 

 in spring and autumn. The White-spotted form " comes 

 very rarely so far north, and when it turns up it always does 

 so four to six weeks earlier than the suecica in the spring." 



