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form distinguished as Turdus alpestris by C. L. Brehm, which 

 inhabits the alpine regions of Central and Southern Europe. I 

 am inclined to think this race, or rather species, as recently 

 revised by Dr. Stejneger and Mr. Seebohm, occurs on migration 

 more commonly on our east coast than we are aware of. [See 

 the remarks by Mr. John Young on Turdus alpestris in Hungary 

 further on (pp. 66, 67).— Ed.] 



Black-throated Chat, Saxicola stapazina, Vieillot. — A 

 russet-coloured Wheatear, with the sides of the head and throat 

 black, apparently an adult male, was seen by Mr. Hewetson and 

 his sons on Sept. 18th, 1892, near the chalk embankment of the 

 Spurn. Mr. Hewetson wrote, " I was quite close to it for some 

 time." If the sketch of the bird, which he obligingly sent me, is 

 quite correct as to the extension of the black to the lower part of 

 the throat, it is more probable that this was S. melanoleuca 

 (Gtild.), the eastern form of S. stapazina (Zool. 1892, p. 424; 

 Nat. 1893, p. 7). 



Bldethroat, Cyanecula suecica (L.). — On Sept. 20th, 1892, 

 Mr. G. H. Caton Haigh saw an immature Bluethroat in a hedge 

 at North Cotes. It came out on a twig within three feet of his 

 face. Subsequently he shot it, but, being only winged, it suc- 

 ceeded in escaping in the dense covert. One was also seen and 

 recognised at the Spurn on Sept. 22nd in the same year (Zool. 

 1892, p. 417; Nat. 1893, p. 9). 



Barred Warbler, Sy Ivia nisoria (Bechstein). — Besides the 

 one already recorded from Spurn in 1884, another, an immature 

 bird, was shot by Mr. G. W. Jalland, of Hull, at Easington, in 

 Holderness, close to the coast, on Oct. 19th, 1892. This is now 

 in the Science and Art Museum, Edinburgh (Zool. 1892, p. 424 ; 

 Nat. 1893, p. 14). A third, an immature male, was shot at 

 Kilnsea by Mr. G. E. Clubley, on Nov. 13th, 1893, and is now in 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney's collection (Nat. 1894, p. 15). In the autumn 

 of 1894 Mr. Jalland saw a bird, presumably of this species, in a 

 hedge close to the village of Easington, but failed to get it ; and 

 in the same season Mr. F. Boyes, of Beverley, wrote, in * The 

 Field' of Dec. 29th, that an immature Barred Warbler was shot 

 near Skirlaugh by Mr. Darley, a birdstuffer in Hull, on Sept. 

 3rd. This makes five examples seen and four obtained in Holder- 

 ness in ten years. 



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