me the free use ot this specimen for close examination and
description. Early in December, 1842, a bird, in every
respect agreeing with the example just mentioned, was obtained
by Mr. Spraine at Bandon in the county of Cork, and
passing almost immediately into the possession of Professor
Allman, its occurrence was by him recorded (Ann. and Mag.
Nat. Hist. xi. p. 78). Its remains are now in the Museum
of Trinity College, Dublin. Between the 6tli and 26th of
January, 1859, a White’s Thrush was several times observed
at Welford, near Stratford-on-Avon, and, having been killed,
is now in the collection of Mr. Robert Tomes of that place,
who, unlike most ornithologists, was not content with merely
announcing the bare fact, but in doing so (Ibis, 1859, p. 379)
contributed some excellent remarks on the structure and
affinities of the species, while he has further laid the present
Editor under an obligation by submitting the specimen to
him for examination. In the spring of 1867 a fourth example
was shot at Ballymahon, county Longford, as recorded
(Zool. s.s. p. 2060) by Mr. H. Blake-Knox, who examined
it at the birdstuffer’s. Early in January, 1870, one was shot
at Hestercombe near Taunton, and obtained by Mr. Cecil
Smith (Zool. s.s. p. 2018) who has kindly forwarded it for
the use of this work; and, almost exactly a year later, on the
6th of January *, 1871, the occurrence, at Langsford, near the
Mendip Hills, of a second Somersetshire specimen was recorded
(Zool. s.s. 2607) by the same gentleman—this last
being now in the possession of Mr. Byne, of Miligen Hall
near Taunton, who has sent its photograph to the Editor.
In the spring of 1870 Mr. Atkinson believes that he saw
a bird of this species at Danby in Cleveland, and as he
states (Zool. s.s. p. 2142) that he watched it through a
glass at the distance of ten yards, this well-known observer
is hardly likely to have been mistaken. But be that as
it may, a male, being the seventh British-killed specimen,
was obtained at Hickling in Norfolk, on the 10th of October,
1871, as recorded by Mr. Gunn (Zool. s.s. p. 2848), and is
* On the preceding day a “ strange Thrush ” answering to the description of
this species was seen a t Cobham, in Kent, by Lord Clifton (Zool. s.s. p. 2845).
now the property of Mr. Sotherton Micklethwait, who also
has kindly submitted it to the Editor’s inspection. Lastly,
on the 31st of January, 1872, another example was taken
alive in Castle Eden Dene, Durham, having been shot at by
Mr. Burdon of that place a fortnight before, when the feathers
of one wing (some of which that gentleman has been
so good as to send to the Editor) were cut away, and the bird
thus rendered incapable of flight. I t survived its capture
about three weeks.
Elsewhere in Europe there is reason to believe that this
species has been killed nearly twenty times, though the records
in some cases mention it under various names. In
Belgium, according to M. C. F. Dubois (Journ. für Orn.
1856, pp. 237 and 505), it seems to have been met with in
four or five instances:—at Dion-le-Mont in October, 1842
(the specimen being in Baron de Selys-Longchamps’s fine
collection), at Namur, and at Jemappes andLouvaine in October,
1855. The Museum at Metz has long held an example
taken in the woods of Rezonville, in September, 1788, and
many years afterwards described by Holandre as a new
species under the name of Turdus aureus (Annuaire de
Verronnais, pour l’an 1825, p. 310). MM. Jaubert and
Barthelemy-Lapommeraye figure one killed near Marseilles
in October, 1840. A female occurred in the Tyrol in 1861,
according to Dr. Altliammer (Rev. de Zool. 1861, p. 553).
One is said (Isis, 1845, p. 564) to have been obtained in
the Vienna market, and Herr von Pelzeln mentions, though
under the name of a perfectly distinct species (Turdus
dauma), one killed at Aspang in Austria in 1847. Two or
three have occurred on Heligoland, one of which, according
to Boie (Isis, 1835, p. 251) was killed in September, 1834;
and prior to 1838, at least two near Hamburg, one of which,
mentioned by Mr. Gould in his ‘ Birds of Europe, is still
in the possession of Mr. Baker, of Hardwick Court, Gloucester.
In 1849 Herr E. F. von Homeyer announced (Rhea,
ii. p. 145) that a specimen taken at Elbing in Prussia was
contained in the Museum at Königsberg; while in 1840
Prof. Sundevall communicated to the Royal Academy of