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birds had been occasionally seen climbing the buttresses of 

 the buildings, or feeding on the grass-plots of the garden, and 

 were so tame, — a character peculiar to this species, — that 

 one of them, probably a male, was supposed to have fallen a 

 victim to a cat : the other was shot ; on dissection it proved 

 to be a female, and the specimen was prepared and preserved 

 for Dr. Thackeray's collection. 



A second specimen has been killed in Essex ; and the 

 following notice of the occurrence appeared in Loudon's Ma- 

 gazine of Natural History for the year 1832, page 288, in a 

 letter to the editor, as follows : — " Sir, A few years since, I 

 shot a small bird in a garden on the borders of Epping Fo- 

 rest, which I did not know, nor could any one tell me what 

 it was, till within a fortnight a gentleman requested me to 

 allow hira to take it to London. He accordingly went to 

 Mr. Gould, Naturalist, 20, Broad-street, Golden-square, 

 who sends me an account of its being the Accentor alpinus, 

 or Alpine Warbler, the only one known to have been killed in 

 England, with the exception of one in Dr. Thackeray's garden 

 at Cambridge. If any of your correspondents would like to 

 see it, they can by calling at my nursery. Wood-street, 

 Walthamstow. — I am, Sir, yours, &c. James Pamplin. 

 Whips Cross, Walthamstow, January 27th, 1832." 



I am indebted to the Rev. Dr. Goodenough, the Dean of 

 Wells, for a knowledge of the occurrence of a third example 

 of this rare bird, which was shot in the garden of the Deanery 

 in Somersetshire in 1833. Dr. Goodenough most obligingly 

 offered to send this bird up to London for my use ; but the 

 loan of Dr. Thackeray's specimen rendered a second example 

 unnecessary. I am not, however, the less happy to record my 

 obligations for the favour intended. 



The Alpine Accentor is not uncommon in Germany, 

 France, Switzerland, Provence, and Italy, in which countries 

 It frequents the highest elevations of the mountain districts 



