68 CLARKE : THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



the Phillipine Islands ; and since we have chiefly authentic 

 evidence of its occurrence in Yorkshire in the fall and winter, 

 we may conclude that this species has journeyed very far west 

 during the autumn passage, crossing half Asia and the whole 

 of Europe, instead of undertaking the normal and much shorter 

 south-east route. 



This bird has been recorded to have occurred on five 

 occasions in Yorkshire. One of these is considered to be open 

 to doubt by Mr. Harting in his Handbook of British Birds, 

 namely that mentioned by the Rev. J. C. Atkinson as observed 

 in the spring of 1870, on his lawn at Danby-in-Cleveland, 

 which he examined carefully on two occasions with a binocular 

 glass, and mentioned in the Zoologist (May, 1870, p. 2142) 

 as this species. We may, however, agree with Professor 

 Newton in his opinion (Yarrell's British Birds, i. 252) that 

 ' this well-known observer is hardly likely to have been mis- 

 taken.' 



On the 14th of October, 1864, Mr. Alfred Beaumont, the 

 president, exhibited to the Huddersfield Naturalists' Society, 

 a specimen which he said had been shot at Almondbury Bank. 

 I have endeavoured to obtain further and more detailed in- 

 formation about this bird, but none appears to be attainable. 



In the latter part of November, 1878, Mr. Martin 

 Simpson, curator of the Whitby Museum, received a bird of this 

 species which had been killed by coming in contact with the 

 telegraph wires near that town (Zool., 1880, p. 68). The speci- 

 men is now in the Whitby Museum, where the writer has seen it. 



During the first week in November, 1881, a White's Thrush 

 was shot at Rimswell, near Withernsea, in Holderness, by Mr. 

 W. J. Tuton, who mistook it for a woodcock as it rose from a 

 low, thick hedge close to him. This specimen is now in the 

 collection of Mr. R. T. Burnham, of Rimswell, to whom I am 

 indebted for these particulars, and for several opportunities of 

 examining his beautiful specimen. 



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