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say to which of the two species they belonged. 

 It is of course far more probable that the visitors 

 to our shores would be of European, not Ameri- 

 can, extraction. At the same time they have 

 been described as according so well in every 

 respect with the American ludovicianus, that 

 we must either admit that the latter bird occa- 

 sionally visits this country, or agree with 

 Richardson and Swainson (" Faun. Bor. Ameri- 

 cana," ii. p. 231) that it is indistinguishable 

 from aquaticus of Bechstein, that is, spinoletta 

 of Linnaeus. 



Edwards was the first to notice this bird as 

 a visitant to England, giving a description and 

 figure of a specimen obtained near London in 

 his "Gleanings" (vol. ii. p. 185, pi. 297). 

 Montagu shortly afterwards noticed two in his 

 " Ornithological Dictionary," one of which had 

 been taken in. Middlesex, the other near 

 Woolwich. 



Macgillivray, in his " Manual of British 

 Birds," p. 169, minutely describes two Pipits 

 which were shot near Edinburgh in June, 1824, 



