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occasions. The first recorded British-killed specimen appears to be that shot by the late Lord 

 Malmesbury at Heron Court, near Christchurch, on the 24th January 1828, and described as 

 new by Mr. Eyton under the name of Tardus whitei. Since then the following occurrences are 

 recorded, viz. : — one obtained by Mr. Spraine, at Bandon, county Cork, in December 1842 

 (All man, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xi. p. 78); one at Welford, near Stratford-on-Avon, on the 

 26th January 1859 (Tomes, Ibis, 1859, p. 379); one at Ballymahon, county Longford, Ireland, 

 in 1867 (Blakc-Knox, Zool. s. s. p. 2060) ; one at Hestercombe, near Taunton, Somerset, early 

 in January 1870 (Cecil Smith, Zool. s. s. p. 2018); one at Langsford, near the Mendip Hills, 

 6th January 1871 (Cecil Smith, Zool. s. s. p. 2607); one at Hickling, Norfolk, 10th October 

 1871 (Gunn, Zool. s. s. p. 2848); and one which, according to Mr. Hancock (B. of North, and 

 Durli. p. 64), "was shot in Castle-Eden Dene, Durham, by Rowland Burdon, Esq., on the 17th 

 of January 1872 : it was only wounded, and was not captured until about a fortnight afterwards, 

 and is now in the possession of that gentleman. A notice of this occurrence was sent to the 

 • Field' newspaper, February 1872, from which it appears that the tips of the primaries of one 

 wing had been entirely cut off by the shot. Some of the feathers that had been shot away were 

 kindly sent to me. It lived three weeks in captivity, and ate freely." Besides those already 

 mentioned, one was seen and clearly recognized at Danby, in Cleveland, in the spring of 1870, 

 by Mr. Atkinson (Zool. s. s. p. 2142); but lie did not obtain it. All the above instances of the 

 capture of this Thrush in Great Britain have been cited by Professor Newton in the fourth 

 edition of Yarrell's ' British Birds;' but since then I received information in a letter from Mr. E. 

 Hearle Rodd, dated 15th January 1874, of the capture of a male in Cornwall "a day or two 

 previously;" and this occurrence was subsequently noticed by that gentleman, in October 1874 

 (Journ. Inst. Cornwall, No. xvi. p. 58). 



On the continent of Europe more than twice as many instances are recorded from various 

 localities. It has once been obtained in Sweden, a specimen now in the museum at Stockholm 

 having been purchased amongst some game from Jemtland, in the market at Stockholm in 

 January 1838. In Heligoland, Mr. Cordeaux writes (Ibis, 1875, p. 177), " it has occurred several 

 times. Mr. Gatke has five in one case, magnificent examples, all of which came fresh into his 

 hands. Others have been seen and not obtained. Some recent occurrences are: — October 4th 

 1864; April 23rd 1869, a male; October 1st 1869, seen but not obtained; October 16th 1869, 

 a female; September 18th 1870, not obtained." In the Museum at Lund there is a specimen of 

 the Australian form, Tardus lunulatus, which was purchased by Baron Gyllenkrok of a dealer in 

 Hamburg, and which was labelled as having been shot in Fyen ; but there seems to be con- 

 siderable doubt as to the correctness of this statement. According to Von Homeyer (Rhea, ii. 

 p. 144) there is a specimen in the Kdnigsberg Museum, which was obtained at Elbing, in 

 Prussia ; two, referred to by Mr. Gould in his ' Birds of Europe,' were procured near Hamburg 

 prior to 1838; Mr. C. Sachse informs me that one was shot at Hardtburg, about eight German 

 miles from Cologne, late in November 1874; and Mr. C. F. Dubois writes (J. f. O. 1856, 

 pp. 238, 505) that an old male, snared in the forest of Dron-le-mont, near Grez-Doiceau, on the 

 Nth October 1842, is now in the collection of Baron de Selys-Longchamps ; a second, captured 

 at Louvaine in October 1855, is in the possession of Mr. Bovie; and a third was obtained near 

 Jemappes about the same time. One in the Metz Museum was taken in the woods of Rezonville 



