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The following Birds require a word or two of notice in this place, 

 as claiming a position in the European avi-fauna. I am sorry that 

 I cannot do more than mention them here: — 



Calamodyta agricola, Ferdinand, f Salicaria capistrata, Severzow), 

 is reported to me by Von Heuglin as a very good species, of which 

 he had received skins from South Russia. "It is easily distinguished 

 by its short wings, which are cut in a peculiar manner. It resembles 

 in colour, slightly, C. palustris. It measures in length five inches; 

 beak half an inch; wing 2.3; tail 2.1; tarsus 0.85. First quill very 

 short, the third longest, the second about 0.22 of an inch shorter 

 than the third, about equal to seventh, the fourth about equal to the 

 third. Superciliary lines very pronounced — white. First quill as long 

 as the greater wing coverts. First tail feather a quarter of an inch 

 shorter than the fourth. At the base of the beak above on each 

 side three bristles sufficiently long. Pileus dusky brown, circumscribed." 

 I am sorry not 'to have a skin to figure. 



Fringilla Spodiogena, Bonaparte, (Algerian Chaffinch, Dresser, B. 

 of E., part 18), is stated by Degland and Gerbe to have occurred 

 in southern Europe, but the instance they quote is not satisfactory. 

 It is stated to have been once taken near Marseilles (Jaubert). Mr. 

 Dresser, who figures the bird, considers it a good species. The 

 female, however, is not distinguishable from F ccelebs, our well-known 

 bird. 



Anthus Seehohmi, Dresser, is a new species of Pipit, discovered 

 on the Petchora river by Messrs. Seebohm and Harvie. It is to be 

 figured and described by Mr. Dresser in the next number of his 

 Birds of Europe, which will be too late for any farther notice in this 

 edition. 



Ammomanes cinctura, Dresser, f Melanocorypha cinctura, Gould, 

 Voyage of Beagle, 1841). — Gould's Desert Lark has occurred once 

 in Malta. It has been well figured by Dresser, B. of E., p. 35 and 

 36, as it comes within the western Palaearctic region. It is tolerably 

 common in North Africa. Tristram says (Ibis, 1859, p. 423,) that it 



