6 SUPPLEMENT TO 
Blackbird (p. 6). 
From the reports received from lighthouse-keepers, especially from the 
S.W. district, it would appear that the Blackbird is among the most 
restless of all the smaller birds, and there is hardly a day in the year 
when some are not on the move. Some of these birds may be only 
making short local journeys, and taking their flight across the water from 
point to point. 
Mr. Gatcombe mentions a male Blackbird at Plymouth that was pure 
white, except the tail, which was deep black, in May 1885 (J. G., Zool. 
1885, p. 377). 
Ring-Ouzel (p. 7). 
[Additional loca] names:—Mountain Blackbird, Mountain Colley, 
Michaelmas Blackbird. | 
In Somerset, according to Mr. Cecil Smith, the Ring-Ouzel is confined 
to the Exmoor country. Mr. Smith had no instance of its nest having 
been met with on the Quantocks, although these beautiful hills seem well 
adapted to it; but when we (M. A. M.) resided at Bishop’s Lydeard, 
immediately beneath them, our garden was sometimes visited by young 
birds in August and September, which we thought had most probably been 
reared on them. There are hills in other parts of the county where the 
Ring-Ouzel may nest, but we are without information, such as the 
Blackdown Hills between Taunton and Honiton, some parts of the 
Mendip, &c. Although it is regularly seen in Dorsetshire at the time of 
the spring and autumn migrations, Col. Mansel-Pleydell had no knowledge 
that this species nested in his county. In Cornwall the Ring-Ouzel 
breeds commonly on the Bodmin moors, and its nesting habitat in the 
S.W. Peninsula would seem to be limited to the wilder parts of the three 
counties of Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset, and in these almost ex- 
clusively to the central Cornish moors, to Dartmoor, and to Exmoor, 
The Ring-Ouzel has been known to spend the winter in the 8.W. counties. 
[ Observation—No fewer than ‘nineteen species of Thrushes have 
occurred on the tiny island of Heligoland, off the mouth of the Elbe, 
and directly opposite to Lincolnshire, a large number when contrasted 
with the seven species that can be claimed for the 8.W. Peninsula of 
England. However, there are two others that have been added to the 
British List, the Black-throated Thrush (Zurdus atrigularis, Temminck), 
from Siberia, one example having occurred at Lewes, and the Rock- 
Thrush (Monticola sawatilis (Linn.)), from Central Europe, of which a 
specimen was obtained many years ago at Therfield, in Hertfordshire. As 
birds passing Heligoland are noted to be stili heading to the west, it is 
quite probable that some of the American and Asiatic Thrushes which 
