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It has been recorded as an occasional straggler to the south coast of England, and appears 
to have occurred on at least five or six different occasions. It was first added to our British list 
by Mr. George Dawson Rowley, of Brighton, who (Ibis, 1863, pp. 37, 39) gave full particulars 
of the capture of two examples of this Pipit, one of which was obtained near Brighton on the 
17th of August, 1858, and the other close to Rottingdean, near Brighton, on the 24th of 
September, 1862. Since then, according to Mr. Harting, five specimens have been recorded as 
having been obtained, viz.:—one, Brighton, 30th of September, 1864 (G. Dawson Rowley, Ibis, 
1865, p. 113); one, Scilly, September 1868 (Hearle Rodd, Zoologist, 1868, p. 1458); two, 
Brighton, 6th of September, 1869 (F. Bond, Zoologist, 1870, p. 1984); and one, Brighton, 
autumn 1870 (Bond, Zoologist, 1870, p. 2383). To these I may add that Mr. George Dawson 
Rowley has obtained another specimen at Brighton, which he records in the ‘ Field’ of the 11th 
of October, 1873. 
It has not been recorded from Iceland or the Feroes; but in Scandinavia it occurs not 
unfrequently in the southern portion of the peninsula, though it has not been met with in 
Norway. Nilsson writes (Skand. Faun. p. 389) that “it is not uncommon on the sandy heaths 
and fields in Southern Sweden, and in some localities quite numerous. In Skane it is found on 
almost all the heaths both on the coast and in the interior; and I saw it in Halland, Blekinge, 
and Oland. Wallengren met with it in the southern part of Gottland; but it does not occur in 
Upper Sweden and Norway. It arrives in May and leaves in September.” When in Oland in 
1847 Mr. Meves saw this Pipit, and shot a pair at Skanorsljung; but he did not obtain it on his 
second visit. In Finland, according to Magnus von Wright (Finl. Fogl. p. 151) it has been 
obtained but once, at St. Michel, in June 1855, by Mr. J. von Wright. ‘Two were seen, but 
only one was shot. It occurs but rarely in Northern and Central Russia; and Mr. L. Sabandeff 
informs me that he believes he saw it in the Government of Jaroslaf, and it occasionally occurs 
near Moscow during migration. Severtzoff records it as a migrant in the Government of 
Voronege. I have no information as to its occurrence in the Baltic Provinces; but in Poland 
it is, as I am informed by Mr. Taczanowski, tolerably numerous, especially in sandy localities, 
where it is found during the summer in the most open and arid spots, and hides its nest so 
effectually that it is seldom found. According to Borggreve “it is more common in the eastern 
than the western portion of North Germany. It is said to be rare in Silesia, Anhalt, Pomerania, 
Mecklenburg, and Oldenburg, but common in Ober-Lausitz. Rafu met with it breeding on the 
Island of Sylt. Bolsmann records it as nesting on clayey commons;” and Borggreve himself 
observed a few pair near Neustadt-Eberswald. Mr. A. von Homeyer writes (J. f. O. 1870, 
p- 223) that he “found it breeding in small numbers in New Pomerania, Ober-Lausitz, Posen, 
and Lower Silesia, and found it numerous during the autumn migration in the two last-named 
localities.” According to Von Zittwitz it breeds not uncommonly near Magdeburg. Dr. E. 
Rey informs me that it arrives in Saxony in April, and breeds in the sterile country between 
the Dolauer Haide and the village of Granau; he obtained eggs between the 7th of May and 
the 25th of July, from four to five ina nest. Mr. Carl Sachse, writing to me from Altenkirchen, 
Rhenish Prussia, says that it does not breed there, but he has shot it at both seasons of migra- 
tion. He obtained one nest, containing eggs, from Andernach, on the Rhine, taken near there 
on the 9th of June. Faber (Orn. Not. p. 26) records it as rare in Denmark; and, according to 
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