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Sciicvelling near Leyden, and on looking at our 

 memorandum taken down at the time, we find it 

 recorded " as running very fast, and being rather 

 shy." Mr Vigors has the merit of first making it 

 known to our fauna, from a specimen which was 

 taken alive in the vicinity of London in 1812. 

 He afterwards proposed separating it from the 

 Anthi) under the title of Corydalla. 



The crown and nape deep brown, margined 

 with yellowish brown ; the back and wings 

 blackish brown, the feathers deeply edged with 

 yellowish brown, and having altogether a tinge 

 of oil green; middle feathers of the tail deep 

 brown, the outer, and that next to it, having con- 

 siderable proportions of white ; a streak over the 

 eyes and chin yellowish white ; the throat yellow- 

 ish white, surrounded by lengthened brown spots ; 

 the breast yellowish brown, with oblong spots of 

 umber brown ; the belly, vent, and flanks, yellow- 

 ish brown ; the bill, legs, and feet are yellowish 

 brown, the hinder claw very much produced or 

 lengthened. 



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In the next family, the Ampelida, at which we 

 have now arrived, we have only one bird ranking 

 as a native ; but of the other splendid and curious 

 forms of which it is composed, we can give no 

 idea, without wandering very far from the object 

 of our present volume. The bird we have alluded 



