The Zoologist — July, 1874. 4049 



4. "Between the 6th ai:id 26th of January, 1859, a specimen was 

 several times observed at Welford, near Stratford-on-Avon, and 

 having been killed, is now in the collection of Mr. R. F. Tomes, of 

 that place, who, unlike most ornithologists* was not content with 

 merely announcing the bare fact, but in doing so ('Ibis,' 1859, p. 379) 

 contributed some excellent remarks on the structure and affinities of 

 ihe species." — History of British Birds, fourth edition, i. p. 252. 



6. At p. 2019 of the 'Zoologist' for 1870, Mr. H. Blake-Knox, 

 one of the most talented, observant and zealous ornithologists that 

 Ireland has ever produced, incidentally mentions that a specimen 

 of White's thrush was shown him by Mr. Glennon, by whom it was 

 stuffed. Mr. Blake-Knox subsequently (Zool. S. S. 2060) kindly 

 handed me the following details : — " It was shot in the spring of 

 1867 by the Honourable King Harman, of Newcastle, Ballymahon, 

 who mistook it for a small hawk or cuckoo. I examined the bird 

 myself at the stuffer's, Mr. Glennon, of Wicklow-street, Dublin, in 

 1867 ; but as I did not see it in the flesh I must admit I did not 

 give it as much attention as I ought." — H. Blake-Knox, in Zool. 1. c. 

 I much and often regret that Irish naturalists do not regularly send 

 me records of rare species of animals occurring in Ireland: since 

 the lamented death of Mr. W. Thompson, of Belfast, there is a sad 

 gap in this important branch of Irish Natural History. 



6. Mr. Cecil Smith records, at p. 2018 of the fifth volume of the 

 Second Series of the 'Zoologist,' that on the 7th of January, 1870, 

 a bird of this species was shot at Hestercombe, Somersetshire, by 

 Mr. Beadon, of Yatton, who mistook it for a woodcock. " The 

 bird agreed closely with Yarrell's description, except that the legs 

 and toes — scarcely faded at all when I [Mr. C. Smith] first saw 

 them — were yellowish brown instead of pale brown ; the claws 

 considerably paler than the legs and toes, but still tinged with 

 yellowish brown." 



7. " One, Almondbury Bank, near Huddersfield ; Beaumont, 

 'Huddersfield Naturalist,' i. p. 217." — Harting's Handbook of 

 British Birds, p. 100. 



8. One was obtained on the 6th of January, 1871, at Langsford, 

 near the Mendip Hills : it was in open ground, but near a wood, 

 and was shot when feeding on hawthorn berries. Mr. Cecil Smith, 

 who records this occurrence at p. 2607 of the ' Zoologist' for 1871, 

 satisfied himself that the specimen was correctly named, and that 

 it was not a foreign specimen made up for sale. 



