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neighbourhood of Wadso, an example of a Pipit, which 
had puzzled him a good deal. The bird, which, during 
his absence, had been kept in a cellar, was produced, 
unskinned and still fresh, but unfortunately half eaten 
by mice. A very short inspection served to shew that 
it was a male of the same species as the hen we had, 
as above-mentioned, taken from the nest. Being too 
much injured to be preserved, it was reluctantly thrown 
away. 
In a week’s time w'e were quartered at Nyborg, a 
small settlement at the head of the Waranger Fjord. 
Here willows and birches grew with far greater luxu- 
riance, even at the water’s edge, than lower down the 
inlet. Some even attained to nearly twice the height 
of a man, and formed thickets, which, the intervening 
spaces being exceedingly boggy, were not easily explored. 
In this secluded spot we found our Ked-throated friend 
not unplentiful. We could scarcely go out of the house 
without seeing one, and in the immediate neighbourhood 
we procured several more identified nests, making a total 
of five, and a fine series of nine birds, all, of course, 
in their breeding plumage. We had also abundant 
opportunities of watching their habits, and, above all, of 
contrasting them with those of the Titlark, f A.pratensis,) 
which was not iincommon in the district, and to which 
this species has been so unjustly annexed as a variety. 
The two birds had, according to our observation, an 
entirely different range; A.pratensis haunting a station 
less wooded (saving the expression) than that of A. 
cermnus, which latter we found at times feeding on the 
sea-shore — a habit we did not there notice the former 
to indulge in. No one with ears either could for a 
moment be in doubt about their respective notes. It 
is true that the full song of A. cercinus did not differ 
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