507 
m. 
ox TIIK OCCUIJREXCE OF A FLOCK 
OF THE ARCTIC BLUE-THROATED WARBLER 
(ERITIIACUS SUECICA) IX XORFOLK.* 
Bv J. II. OuKNEV, .Jux., F.Z.S. 
Read 2 gth yanuary, 1884 . 
Tiir subject of this notice is a well-known summer visitant to the 
north of Europe, t and an occasional straggler to Great Britain. It 
has been known ns occurring in Xorfolk, since September, 1841, 
when an adult male, in my father’s collection, was found dead at 
Yarmouth (‘Zoologist,’ vol. i. p. 180). In September, 18G7, another 
— from the description apparently a young male — was identified by 
^Ir. J. R. Griffith, among a party of Wheatears, Tit-larks, and other 
small migratory birds, which alighted upon a ship off the X'orfolk 
coast (‘ Zoologist,’ p. 1014). In September, 1881, a third was shot 
by IMr. G. E. Rower, at Cloy, while consorting with Redstarts and 
AVhitethroats (Tmns. Xorfolk and Xorwich Xat. Soc. 1881 2 , 
l>p. 34 G, 350). These are all the recorded occurrences in Xorfolk, 
of a bird hitherto considered very rare, but which can hardly be 
accounted so any longer; for last September, as our Society is 
aware, no less than nine were shot at Blakeney by one of our 
members — Mr. F. D. Power ; while another, now in the collection 
of the Rev'. Dr. Churchill Babington, was obtained on the south 
* The Bluethroats have generally been placed in the genus but 
I follow Mr. II. Seebohm. who in his ‘ British Birds ’ uses the generic name 
of Erithaciat, and the English appellation of “ Arctic Bluethroat ” for the 
red-spotted species, as distinct from the white-spotted. It is cpiite unlike a 
Redstart in its actions, seeming rather to link the Redstart and the Robin. 
t Our Museum contains a good series in the “ Wolley Collection,” from 
Lapland. 
