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neighbourhood of the Baltic, it is a very rare visitor 
to England. 
We have three specimens. One of these comes 
from the Monk Collection and was one of the first 
to be identified as British, having been caught in a 
clap-net between Rottingdean and Brighton, Septem- 
ber 50th, 1864. It is a male. 
Another was acquired by purchase. It was 
killed near Rottingdean, Sussex, by Mr. G. R. Guthrie, 
September 6th. 1869. It was in company with 
another bird of the same species, and their note 
attracted attention, being very different from that of 
the other Pipits. 
Another, from the Borrer Collection, was caught 
near Brighton, Oct., 1871. 
‘Birds of Sussex,” p. 105. 
RKC HAGA) Seeds eee 
Case 327. 
This case was designed for the late Mr. Monk. 
It contains three of his specimens, all of which were 
obtained in the neighbourhood of Brighton, in 
January, 1865, in 1867 (Oct. 9th), and in October, 
1868. The remaining two birds (in the right hand 
part of the case) were caught in lark nets on Clayton 
Hill, near Brighton, in 1869, and come from the 
Borrer Collection. 
This species has the claw of the hind toe as long 
as that of a lark and is the largest of our Pipits. 
Its home isin North Asia, but occasionally specimens 
wander on migration to Western Europe ; led on, it 
is supposed, by companies of other species who 
migrate recularly in this direction. 
Mr. Dawson Rowley in the Zoologist (1865 p, 
9466) gives an interesting account of the capture of 
one of these specimens (the middle bird, toward the 
back of the case), 1 was sent up to his house alive 
by Mr. Swaysland the bird-stuffer in Queen’s Road, 
