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same page, 111, a second example is noticed as having oc- 

 curred near Edinburgh. 



The same Magazine has also recorded two other instances 

 of the occurrence of this species. On the second of May 

 1836, an adult male bird was killed by Mr. Hoy in the 

 parish of Stoke Nayland, Suffolk. In the same month a 

 male specimen was shot a little west of Newcastle, This 

 bird was with another, probably a female, and from the 

 lateness of the season, it is likely they might have bred in 

 the neighbourhood. This last communication was made by 

 Mr. Albany Hancock. 



Another was taken in April 1837 near Finsbury, a short 

 distance north-east of London. From this bird, by the 

 kindness of Mr. Joseph Clarke, the figure at the head of 

 this subject was taken. This bird was a fine male in his full 

 summer dress. 



On the Continent, Mr. Hoy tells me, this species inhabit 

 wet springy places in moist meadows : and M. Temminck adds, 

 that it frequents the vicinity of water, and the gravelly edges 

 of rivers. As a species it is numerous ; common over the 

 central part of Europe, and has a very extensive northern 

 and eastern geographical range. Some British Ornithologists 

 have brought specimens from Sweden and Norway, where 

 it is a summer visiter, appearing in April, and departing in 

 September : it is excellently figured by M. Nilsson in the 

 coloured illustrations of his Fauna of Scandinavia, and in 

 his Tour in Lapland, Linnaeus mentions having seen this 

 bird in that country on the twenty-second of May 1732. 

 Mr. Gould states that he has received skins of this bird from 

 the Himalaya mountains ; and M. Temminck includes it 

 also in his Catalogue of the Birds of Japan. 



This bird makes its nest on the ground in holes, some- 

 times among exposed roots of trees, in cornfields and mea- 

 dows, laying about six eggs, which, as figured in several 



