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presence and sent to the late Henry Seebohm, who declared it 

 to be a bird of the year, just moulted out of the young into first 

 plumage, and probably a female (Migration Report, 1882, p. 31, 

 and Zoologist, 1884, p. 174). 



The other instances are : — One in the second week of 

 September, 1883 (Thos. Winson in litt, and Migration Report, 

 1883, p. 38). Two seen, one shot, on the 15th of September, 

 1884; on the 1 8th three more were procured, one a male of the 

 second year, the other two birds of the year. ' These were all 

 feeding on insects amongst the bent grass covering the head- 

 land. They could hop very fast. I sometimes put them up 

 thirty or forty yards away from the spot where I had marked 

 them down.' (Theo. Fisher, Zoologist, 1884, p. 430, and 

 Migration Report, 1884, p. 44). One in the autumn of 1892 

 (Cordeaux, Naturalist, 1893, p. 9). 



From the Migration Reports the following additional 

 entries are extracted: — 



1885. Spurn, October 7th. Two (Red-Spotted Bluethroats) (p. 41). 



1886. Spurn, September 14th. One young bird (Bluethroat). This was 



seen by Mr. Winson, who knows the bird well (p. 31). (See 

 also Zoologist, 1891, p. 362). 



The only other part of the county which can lay claim to this 

 species figuring in its list, is the low-lying tract between the 

 Tees Mouth and Redcar, where I have positive information 

 as to its occurrence on more than one occasion, in the month of 

 September; I noted one on the breakwater at the Tees Mouth, 

 on the 20th of September, 1883 (this is mentioned by Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney, Transactions of Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' 

 Society, 1884, iii. 579-601, and Migration Report, 1883, p. 38). 



It is quite possible, even probable, that this Bluethroat may 

 be a regular autumn migrant to our shores when on passage 

 from its summer haunts . in Scandinavia, though often over- 

 looked in the crowds of other birds which pass along the coast, 

 or mistaken, from its red tail, for a Redstart, a species which it 



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