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flock of fourteen, which they imagine must have heen bred in 

 the vicinity, were seen near Coburg at the end of October many 

 years ago, and that two of them were taken. In the same dis- 

 trict, the eldest Brehm also mentions (Journ. fur Orn. 1862, 

 p. 386) an old female killed October 10th, 1817. Dr. Borg- 

 greve quotes Prediger Bock for its occurrence at Danzig. Dr. 

 Zander, in 1863, recorded two obtained in Mecklenburg one 

 at Penzlin many years before, the other at Wismar since, and 

 it is said to have occurred in that duchy not unfrequently. 

 Herr von Negelein (Naumannia, 1853, p. 56) mentions one 

 taken in a snare near Oldenburg in 1847, and preserved in the 

 Museum there, while a second was supposed to have been seen 

 at Blankenburg. Dr. Kjserbolling says that a specimen in the 

 Copenhagen Museum was shot in 1822 at Herlufmagle, 

 in Denmark. Dr. Eudolf Blasius in 1862 announced to the 

 German Ornithologists' Society that one had been snared at 

 Gb'ttingen. Herr von Kettner states that it occurs, though 

 rarely, in the Black Forest, and Dr. Zander says the same of 

 it in Wurtemberg, where he was inclined to think it might 

 breed. Pastor Jackel mentions (Journ. fiir Orn. 1854, p. 491) 

 one killed in Bavaria, at the end of June, 1853, and now in 

 the Museum at Ratisbon. The elder Dubois speaks of one 

 brought to market at Namur in October, 1844. In the 

 autumn of 1848, according to De Lamotte (Rev. Zool. 1848, 

 p. 318) one was killed at Abbeville; and MM. Jaubert and 

 Barthelemy-Lapommeraye record the occurrence of two near 

 Marseilles one at St. Marcel in October, 1834, the other 

 brought to market somewhat later. Finally, Prof. Savi long 

 ago announced the capture of an adult near Turin in January, 

 1826, and now preserved in the Museum there. 



The confusion, already mentioned, of the Black-throated 

 with other Thrushes, has naturally led to some perplexity 

 about its right name. Naumann for some time believed that 

 a bird described in 1795 by Bechstein as Turdus dubius was 

 the young of this Thrush, and, not liking so inapplicable an 

 epithet for a very good species, proposed, in 1822, to call it 

 T. bechsteini. This view was always contested by Brehm, 

 who referred T. dubius to the bird commonly known as 



