144 ROCK-PIPIT. 
the Land’s End. A woodcut of this form is given below. Our 
dull-coloured race is found in the Channel Islands and along the 
northern and western shores of France ; while it is represented by 
the Scandinavian form to the eastward and in the Baltic. 
The nest, generally in a clump of sea-pink, a grassy bank, or a 
crevice of the rocks on the sea-shore, is made of dry grasses and 
sometimes sea-tang ; the 4-5 eggs are usually greenish-grey mottled 
with olive-brown, but I have seen reddish ones, like those of a 
Tree-Pipit: measurements ‘8’ by 6 in. Two broods are produced 
in the season. The food consists of marine insects, flies, small 
molluscs and crustaceans, for which the bird may be seen searching 
among the heaps of sea-weed on the shore at low water. 
The adult is olive-brown with darker streaks above; the under 
parts being dull ochreous-olive streaked with brown on the breast. 
At its best the plumage is much like that of the Water-Pipit in 
winter, but more olive, and the exterior tail-feathers have smoke- 
coloured outer webs, so that the under side of the tail seems nearly 
uniform brown. The young are more striated. Length 6°25 in. ; 
wing 3°5 in. 
PycnonoTip#.—An example of the South-African Bulbul or 
“ Gold-vented Thrush,” Pycnonotus capensis, was shot near Water- 
ford, Ireland, in January 1838, and skinned by the late Dr. R. 
Birkett. Considering the natural habitat of the bird, and the time 
of year, it is only reasonable to suppose that it had escaped from 
confinement. 
