BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 27 



Roberts it passed to Mr. Boulton, who mentions the 

 circumstances of its capture in the ' Zoologist' 

 for 1863, p. 8766. It is now in the collection of 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney, Junior. 



42. ERYTHACA RUBECULA (Linnaeus) . Redbreast. 



From Mr. Stevenson's remarks in the ' Birds of 

 Norfolk ' (vol. i. p. 91) on this favourite and familiar 

 denizen of our gardens, it is not improbable that in 

 the autumn migratory arrivals from the north swell 

 the number of our home birds *. Several instances 

 have been known where Redbreasts, along with other 

 birds of passage, have alighted on vessels in the 

 North Sea. Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun. (Zoologist, 

 1872, 2990), mentions a Robin, with other birds, 

 killed against the " Owers " light vessel, off Selsey 

 Bill (West Sussex), in the autumn of 1870. 



43. PHCENICURA SUECICA (Linnaeus). Blue-throated 

 Warbler. 



I have no record of the occurrence of this rare 

 and beautiful wanderer to our shores, either in this 

 county or East Yorkshire f. 



* Mr. Wheelwright says the Redbreast is a spring migrant 

 to Scandinavia, leaving the latest and returning the earliest of 

 any other migrant, some remaining throughout the winter; 

 nests in the forests almost as far up as the arctic circle. 



t With reference to this species, Mr. J. R. Griffith (Oxford), 

 in a communication to the ' Zoologist ' of December 1867, says, 

 " I write to inform you of the occurrence of the Blue-throated 



c2 



