BLUE-THROATED WARBLER. 255 
Two instances only of the occurrence in England of this 
prettily-marked Warbler were formerly recorded. ‘The 
first bird was shot on the boundary hedge of Newcastle 
Town Moor in May 1826, and was presented by Mr. 
Thomas Embleton to the Museum of the Literary and 
Philosophical Society of Newcastle. This circumstance 
was, I believe, first noticed by G. T. Fox, Esq. of Durham, 
in his Synopsis of the Newcastle Museum, page 298, and 
afterwards in the third volume of the Zoological Journal, 
page 497. By the influence and kindness of that gentle- 
man, this specimen, with some other birds of great rarity 
and interest, were exhibited a few years ago in London, at 
one of the evening meetings of the Zoological Club of the 
Linnean Society. The occurrence of the second specimen 
is recorded in the second volume of the Naturalist, page 
275, and is said to have happened in Dorsetshire. 
Soon after the publication of that part of the work which 
contained this species, I received a letter from Plumptre 
Methuen, Esq., informing me that a specimen killed near 
Birmingham was in his possession; and in October 1841, 
J. H. Gurney, Esq. of Norwich, sent me word that he had 
just obtained a specimen for his own collection which had 
but a very few days before been picked up dead near 
Yarmouth. In September 1844 two birds, one old, the 
other a young bird of the year, and both then unskinned, 
were sent for my inspection by Mr. Gardner, of Oxford 
Street. These birds were shot in the Isle of Sheppy. 
This species visits the European Continent from the 
south in the breeding season. It is observed in Italy on 
its passage northward in April, and again on its return in 
September, a straggler being occasionally seen in the win- 
ter. It visits during the summer Provence, Spain, France, 
Holland, Belgium, Germany, and Prussia, going as far 
