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procured, late in November 1874, at Hardtburg near Düsseldorf (Dresser, В. Eur. ii. p. 78); while a 
tenth example is in the Museum of the Forstakadamie at Eberswald, between Berlin and Stettin, and 
is said to have been caught near Cologne (Altum, J. f. O. 1879, p. 216). Lastly, another specimen 
was obtained at Bereren, near Antwerp, on the 13th of October, 1885 (Croegaert, loc. cit.). 
There are four records of the occurrence of White's Thrush in France. The first recorded 
example is in the Museum at Marseilles, and was caught near that city in October 1840 (Jaubert et 
Barthélemy-Lapommeraye, Rich. Orn. p. 209). The second example is in the Museum of Bayonne, 
and was caught near that town in 1871; and the third is in the Museum of Caen, and was captured 
on the coast between Caen and Bayeux in September 1872 ; whilst the fourth is in the collection of 
Monsieur Bernard at Le Mans in the department of Sarthe, and was shot on the 10th of December, 
1875 (Vian, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1880, p. 215). 
А dozen or more examples of White's Thrush have been taken on the little island rock of 
Heligoland, and at least half a dozen others have been seen, but not procured. One was caught in 
September 1834 and described as a new species under the name of Turdus squamatus (Воле, Isis, 
1835, p. 251), and several other examples were sent by Koopmann and Reymers, the Heligoland 
bird-stuffers, to Brandt of Hamburg between 1825 and 1840, most of them having been shot in 
October. Since that date our information respecting the occurrence of rare birds on Heligoland has 
been more precise, various communications from the pen of the resident ornithologist Heinrich Gátke 
having appeared in the ‘Journal für Ornithologie,’ the ‘ Ibis,’ and other periodicals, where the visits 
of various ornithologists to Heligoland have been recorded. Тһе earliest of these mentions White's 
Thrush amongst the species in Gátke's collection (Blasius, Naumannia, 1858, p. 310), and а 
translation of this interesting article appeared in the * Ibis' four years later (Ibis, 1862, p. 58); but 
during the last twenty years Gátke's case of White's Thrushes has been several times described 
(Cordeaux, Ibis, 1875, p. 177). It contains five perfect examples (Seebohm, Ibis, 1877, p. 164), and 
excites the admiration of every visitor to the island (Selys-Longchamps, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 
1882, p. 271). Finally, in 1891, Gátke's long-expected book on the birds of this curious island was 
published, and the scattered details were collected together in his work ‘Die Vogelwarte Helgoland,’ 
and the following exact dates of the occurrence of White's Thrush on the island may be accepted as 
accurate :—An example on the 3rd of September, 1846; a male on the 3rd of October, 1849; a female 
on the 4th of October, 1864; a male in very abraded plumage on the 23rd of April, 1869; a specimen 
on the 1st of October, 1869, and a female on the 16th of the same month ; a specimen on the 18th 
of September, 1870; a male on the 9th of October, 1872; and a female on the 3rd of October, 1884. 
It is interesting to note that in all these cases the occurrence has been in September or October, with 
only one exception, 
There are at least a score of records of the occurrence of White's Thrush in the British Islands, 
but only one of them refers to a Scotch example, which was killed at Hardacres, in Berwickshire, 
during the last week of September 1878 (Brotherston, Zoologist, 1879, pp. 133, 177). 
The species has occurred three times in Ireland. Опе example was shot, in December 1842, in 
the county of Cork (Thompson, Natural History of Ireland, Birds, i. p. 128); a second was shot, in 
the spring of 1867, in County Longford (Blake-Knox, Zoologist, 1870, pp. 2019, 2060) ; and a third 
was killed on the 9th of January, 1885, at Westport in County Mayo (More, Zoologist, 1885, p. 111). 
It is not known to have occurred in Wales, but there are many English records. Тһе earliest is 
that of an example which was shot at Heron Court near Christchurch in Hampshire, and was 
described as a new species in 1836, under the name of Turdus whitei, by the late T. C. Eyton (Rarer 
British Birds, p. 92). Other occurrences on the south coast are an example killed in January 1881 
near Ashburton in Devonshire, said to be one of a flock of four or five of apparently the same 
species (Holdsworth, P. Z. 5. 1881, p. 260); an example killed in January 1874 in the parish of 
