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Continental Pied Wagtail.— '!^ot uncommon in the spring months ; 

 easily recognised in the summer months by its light gray back, which 

 in the common pied species is always more or less black. Falmouth, 

 Gulval, Marazion Green, &c. 



Gray Wagtail. — Winter visitant in the south of England : generally 

 distributed. Some few remain throughout the summer in Cornwall, 

 and breed ; throat, in summer, black. 



Grayheaded Wagtail. — Rare: Marazion Green. Generally 

 observed, on their first arrival, with the yellow wagtail. 



Ray's Wagtail. — Seen for a few days on their first arrival, and 

 again in the autumn, on their return: Marazion Green. 



Tree Pipit. — Summer visitant : very common in the eastern parts 

 of the county, in the summer months: rare in West Cornwall: one 

 killed near Fleming, in Gulval. Generally observed in large trees, 

 in open fields, and parks, from whence the bird mounts singing, 

 returning generally to the same tree, or a contiguous one. Song 

 louder and very superior in quality to that of the titlark. 



Meadow Pipit. — Generally distributed over cultivated and un- 

 cultivated land. 



Rock Pipit. — Generally distributed on our rocky beaches. 



Tawny Pipit. — Scilly Isles : this first example of the occurrence 

 of this pipit in Cornwall was shot by Augustus Pechell, Esq., near 

 Old Grimsby, Isle of Trescoe, in Scilly, September, 1868, and the 

 specimen is in my cabinet. 



Richards' Pipit. — Rare : several examples killed in Redinnick 

 fields, Fenzance, a few years since ; specimens have since been 

 obtained from Scilly. (Length 7^, not 6|, inches : see Yarrell.) 



Sky Lark. — Generally distributed. 



Crested Lark. — The discovery of this species in this distirict took 

 place at about the period of the publication of the 1st supplemental 

 number of Yarrell's History of Birds, the bird not having been 

 recognized as British at the time of the publication of his work. 

 Two examples were obtained in September, 1846, from the road-side 

 between Fenzance and Marazion. Attention was drawn to the birds 

 by the melodious character of their chirp, resembling more in 

 character the flute-like tones of the wood lark than the buoyant 

 song of our common sky lark. The form of the beak and the 

 comparative shortness of the hind claw are decided characters. 

 Another specimen was observed and subsequently secured in the latter 

 part of October, 1860. (See ' Zoologist' of 1846 and 1850.) 



