tions that a male specimen of this rare British bird was taken
in a fishing-boat at Scilly.
W hite’s T hrush. Turdus Whitei, vol. i. p. 184.
Early in the month of December, 1842, an example of this
very rare bird was obtained in the neighbourhood of Bandon,
county of Cork, by R. L. Allman, Esq., and is now in the
possession of G. J. Allman, Esq., of Grattan Street, Dublin.
—Annals of Natural History, vol. ii. p. 78. January 1848.
B lue-throated W arbler. Phcenicura Suecica, vol.
i. p. 233. Soon.after the publication of that part of the
work which contained this species, I received a letter from
Plumptre Methuen, Esq., informing me that a specimen
killed near Birmingham was in his possession. In 1838 J.
C. Dale, Esq. of Glanville Wootton, recorded in the Naturalist,
vol. ii. p. 275, a notice of one example shot in Dorsetshire
in 1836, and the specimen preserved in the museum of
Mr. R. A. Cox; and in October 1841 J. H. Gurney, Esq.,
of Norwich, sent me word that he had just obtained a specimen
for his own collection which had but a very few days
before been picked up dead near Yarmouth.
T he B lack R edstart. Phcenicura iithys, vol. i. p.
241. Several examples of this bird have been procured, and
Wm. Thompson, Esq. of Belfast, has shown me a female of
this species which was killed in the North of Ireland.
Savi’s W arbler. Salicaria luscinoides, vol. i. p. 268*.
Of this interesting addition to our British Birds a figure and
descriptive particulars are given on a single leaf, to be inserted
as paged.
D almatian R egulus. Regulus modestus, vol. i. p.
316*. This species, first made known by Mr. Gould in his
Birds of Europe from a single example killed on the Continent,
has since been obtained in Northumberland, by Mr.
John Hancock, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. A figure and particulars
are given.
W hite W agtail. Motacilla alba, vol. i. p. 369. At
the page here quoted the appearance of this bird both in
summer and in winter-plumage is given; and I mentioned
also my belief that attention being drawn to the subject, this
species would be occasionally found in this country. It happened
that in May 1841, my friend Mr. Frederick Bond
found two pairs of this Wagtail frequenting the banks of the
Kingsbury Reservoir, and succeeded in shooting three of the
birds, two males and a female, and very kindly gave me one
of the males. In the spring of 1842 a specimen was shot
near Carlisle, which is now in the possession of T. C. Hey-
sham, E sq .; and I have, during the month of April of the
present year, received one, and heard of two others that were
obtained by Mr. James J . Tratham, in the vicinity of Falmouth.
Mr. Bond tells me that he has again seen one example
of M. alba near the Reservoir this spring.
R ock P ip it . A. obscura of Pennant and Montagu, vol.
i. p. 394. Mr. Gould, in the 22nd Part of his Birds of
Europe, says, 6C we have some reason to believe that there
are two species of Rock Pipits nearly allied to each other,
as we have never been able to find in any of the examples
killed in the British Islands that uniform vinous tint we have
observed to pervade the breast of the continental examples;
neither have we been able to meet with any specimens in
continental collections that strictly accord with the dull and
indistinct markings of those of the British Islands; to this
point we would, therefore, beg the attention of those naturalists
who may possess opportunities of investigating the
subject.” The second species here referred to is the Anthus
aquaticus of Bechstein. Two examples of Pipits, obtained
in this country, one in the London market, and another at
Yarmouth, supposed at first to be specimens of A. aquaticus,
proved to be a particular stage of plumage of Montagu’s
Rock P ip it; but among some examples of Pipits obtained