372 ANTHUS CERVINUS. 



[§ 1943. -Fo^/r— Vadso, 22 June, 1855. "Bird caught. 

 W. H. S. and A. N." 



O. W. tab. xi. figg. 7, 8. 



This nest was found by me, as above stated, and I transcribe with a few 

 corrections the details furnished by me to Dr. Bree : — On the evening of the day 

 mentioned Mr, Hudleston and I, in the course of a bird's-nesting walk to the 

 north-east of the town of Vadso, at the distance of perhaps a couple of miles, 

 came upon a bog, whose appearance held out greater promise to our desires 

 than we had hitherto met with in Norway. We had crossed the meadows near 

 the houses, where Temminck's Stint and the Shore-Lark were trilling out their 

 glad notes, and had traversed a low ridge of barren moor, where the solicitude 

 of a pair of Golden Plovers plainly told us that they had eggs or yoimg near us. 

 A Dunlin's nest was speedily found, and the bird procured to identify it, for we 

 had hopes of all sorts of Waders in that remote district. A little while after, 

 as I was cautiously picking my way over the treacherous ground, I saw a Pipit 

 dart out from beneath my feet, and aliglit again close by, in a manner which I 

 was sure could only be that of a sitting hen. I had but to step off the grass- 

 grown hillock on which I was standing to see the nest ensconced in a little 

 nook, half covered by herbage. But the appearance of the eggs took me by 

 surprise ; they were unlike any I knew — of a brown colour, indeed, but of a 

 brown so warm that I could liken it only to that of old mahogany-wood, and 

 compare them in my mind with those of the Lapland Bunting. However, there 

 was the bird runuing about so close to me that with my glass I could see her 

 almost as well as if she had been in my hand. That she was a Pipit was 

 undeniable ; and thoughts of a species till then unseen by me began to dawn 

 upon my imagination. I replaced the eggs without disturbing the nest ; and 

 carefully marking the spot, we retired. In half an hour cr so we returned, 

 going softly to the place ; and Mr. Hudleston, reaching his arm over the 

 protecting hassock of grass, dexterou.sly secured the bird in his hand as she 

 was taking Hight. I then at once knew from her pale fawn-coloured throat 

 that the nest we had found belonged to a species which, up to that time, as 

 I believed, had been known in Europe only as an accidental visitant — Anthits 

 cervi?ius. How our discovery had been anticipated I have before told.] 



[§ 1944. Four. — Nyborg, East Finmark, 29 June, 1855. 



0. W. tab. xi. fig. 9. 



From a nest of five eggs with large young inside. The fifth specimen, 

 I believe, was given to Mr. Salvia in return for his care in mending the four 

 that remain.] 



§ 1945. 27iree.—^yhoYg, 30 June, 1855. "J. W." 



Bree, Birds of Europe, plate ; 0. W. tab. xi. fig. 10. 

 This nest I took at Nyborg a couple of hundred yards to the east 



