2942 THE ZooLoGisT—FEBRUARY, 1872. 
White’s Thrush.— Mr. Gurney calls attention to the circumstance of two 
specimens, or supposed specimens, of White’s thrush occurring on successive 
days last year, one of which was recorded by myself. An additional 
coincidence may be noticed in the fact that Mr. R. F. Tomes, as mentioned 
by Mr. Gould, met with a White’s thrush, a year or two back, on the 6th 
of January, one of the very days in question. With regard to the editorial 
remark about the similarity of young missel thrushes to this bird, I would 
observe that it was not any peculiarity of plumage that attracted my 
attention to this bird, but rather the singular resemblance to a woodcock 
which it presented on the wing—a peculiarity of this bird which has twice 
been noticed in the ‘ Zoologist.’ The habits of this bird were altogethe 
distinct from those of the missel thrush.— Clifton. ; 
Ring Ouzel at Epping.—There has been a ring ouzel about the garden 
for a week [1st to 8th of November, 1871]: it comes to feed on the haws 
upon one of the red thorns at the bottom of the garden, and also upon the 
yew berries. When I was in the garden this morning it came into the tree 
three or four times when I was within ten yards of it—Henry Doubleday, 
in a letter to E. Newman. 
Golden Orioles in Confinement.—I think it may be of interest to some of 
the readers of the ‘Zoologist’ to know, especially as so distinguished an 
ornithologist as Mr. J. H. Gurney does not seem to be aware of the fact, 
(see ‘ Zoologist,’ S. S. p. 2681) that the golden oriole (Oriolus galbula) is not 
_unfrequently kept as a cage bird in Austria, where it is a regular, and in 
some parts nnmerous, summer visitor. I myself have seen several birds of 
this species in confinement, and learnt, on good authority, that these birds 
have been kept alive as captives for several years. Last summer, whilst 
staying at Vienna, I saw ata friend's house three young hardly-fledged 
orioles, which he had, only a few days previous to my seeing them, taken 
with their nest, and had placed them in a good sized wicker-work cage. He 
fed them with bread and milk mixed with (the so-called) ants’ eggs, of 
which they seemed very fond. They were remarkably tame, considering 
their short imprisonment and great shyness on being first taken. I have 
since heard from the gentleman to whom the young birds belonged that 
they are still in perfect health, and have turned out very strong and fine 
birds. The golden oriole seems to be one of those birds which yearly resort 
to the same place for the purpose of nidification (a fact I believe not 
generally known), several instances having come to my notice, when living 
in Austria, of these birds frequenting, year after year, the same spot for 
rearing their young. The tree from which the above-mentioned nest was 
taken is one of their favourite places, a pair of birds having built their nest 
in it for more than ten successive years. This tree is a tall elm situated in 
the College Park of Kalsburg, which is in the immediate vicinity of Vienna, 
and the nest, which is mostly a well-built shallow structure and composed 
of stalks, roots, grass, straw and wool (the finer particles of these, and 
