102 THE BIRDS OF SUSSEX. 



by Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun., who recorded the fact in the 

 'Zoologist' of that year (p. 192). The specimen was after- 

 wards submitted to Mr. R. B. Sharpe, who exhibited it at 

 the meeting of the Zoological Society of London on April 1st 

 (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1884, p. 206) . It was caught near Brighton^ 

 and is now in the collection of Mr. Monk, of Lewes. 



A long account of the habits of this species, as ob- 

 served on the shores of the Varanger Fjord in North- 

 eastern Norway, by the late Mr. Wolley and Professor New- 

 ton, in the summer of 1855, will be found in Bree's 

 ' Birds of Europe,' whence it has been reproduced in Mr. 

 Dresser's well-known work. This species breeds in a some- 

 what restricted area in the extreme North of Europe, and 

 thence to the eastward across Asia. In winter it is found on 

 the shores of the Mediterranean, and especially in Egypt. 

 The nest, which is placed on the ground among coarse herb- 

 age, is described as being simply built of dry bents without 

 any lining of feathers or hair. 



WATEE-PIPIT. 



AntJim spipbTeita. 



The first notice of this species being taken in Sussex is that 

 of Mr. John Pratt, of Brighton, who, in the 'Zoologist' 

 (pp. 9279-80), states that in 1864 an example had been killed 

 near Worthing, and another on the beach at Brighton, and 

 tha;t these two specimens were determined by Mr. Gould to 

 be Anthus spipoletta of continental authors. They are also 

 recorded in the ' Ibis ' for 1865 (p. .114). That obtained at 

 Brighton passed into the collection of the late Bishop Wil- 

 berforce, and Mr. Boynton, of. Ulrotae Grange, in Yorkshire, 

 purchased the other, and submitted it to the inspection of 



