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collection in the Museum of the University of Cambridge contains an example labelled ' Britain, 

 1846;' but no further particulars of its locality are known. About September 15th, 1852, one 

 was shot near Whimple, in South Devon, as recorded by Lord Lilford (Zool. p. 3709). A hen 

 killed at Worthing, May 2nd, 1853, is mentioned by Mr. J. W. Stephenson (Zool. p. 3907) ; and 

 a cock killed early in May 1856, near Lowestoft (Zool. p. 5149), is also in Mr. Gurney's collection. 

 Mr. Cecil Smith notices one said to have been killed in Somerset in 1856, and now in the Exeter 

 Museum; and Mr. H. Pratt records (Zool. p. 8281) a cock caught at Brighton, October 1st, 1862, 

 which is in Mr. Borrer's collection. Captain Hadfield in the ' Zoologist ' for 1 865 and the two 

 following years, gave a series of observations made at different times on a Blue-throated Warbler 

 which, he says, frequented a locality in the Isle of Wight from at least February 1865 to 

 September 1867, being, for part of the time, joined by a second. Finally, Mr. Gray has informed 

 the editor that a cock was caught on board a fishing-boat off Aberdeen, May 16th, 1872." 

 Mr. Cecil Smith also writes to me as follows : — " I included the Blue-throated Warbler in my 

 ' Birds of Somerset' on the authority of a specimen in the Exeter Museum, which is stated on the 

 label to have been killed in Somersetshire ; and the curator of the Museum told me he believed 

 the statement to be correct, but knew nothing of his own knowledge about the bird. This is a 

 red-spot bird, as, I believe, all or nearly all the British specimens are. 



" Professor Ansted includes this bird in his list of Channel-Island birds on the authority of 

 a pair at the Guernsey Museum, which were supposed to have been killed in Jersey. There was 

 no label upon them at all ; and after some cross-examination I elicited that these two birds were 

 amongst the stock of a Jersey bird-stuffer, who was in the habit of getting skins from the 

 Continent, and these skins were sent over to the Museum when he left Jersey, without any 

 account of where they had been obtained ; so I think they may fairly be put down as at least 

 very doubtful Channel-Island specimens. I know that Mr. Gallienne, who at the time I inquired 

 about them took great interest in the affairs of the Museum, did not believe in them. I believe 

 there is no other record of the appearance of the Blue-throated Warbler in the Channel Islands." 



In Scandinavia it is common ; and Mr. Robert Collett, writing on the ornithology of Norway, 

 states that it is " common in birch undergrowth in Finmark and on TromsS ; in West Finmark 

 it was most abundant along the shores of the Porsangerfjord and in Alten. From the middle of 

 July full-grown birds of the year were to be seen almost everywhere. 



" On the southern fells this species would be seen steadily increasing from year to year. 

 Both on the Dovre and Fillefjeld, and their ramifications, it is very abundant in wooded and 

 willowed marshes. At the latter end of July 1872, this species, with their full-grown young, 

 struck me as being the most numerous of all small birds in the wide marshy tract round 

 Fokstuen, on the Dovrefjeld, a locality in which nearly the whole of our alpine fauna is found 

 represented. At the same time individuals of this species were occasionally seen in the subalpine 

 districts of the Gudbrandsdal ; it is by no means, however, probable that the bird ever breeds 

 here; it merely repairs from the adjacent fells at the close of the breeding-season. In the 

 lowlands they are rarely observed, and only on their migratory passage, which may, perhaps, be 

 partly accounted for by their shy and cautious habits. But in the vicinity of Christiania, where 

 they have been more sought after, several examples have been procured of late years ; two males, 

 for instance, were killed on the 18th May, 1871. 



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