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RED-TIIROATED PIT’IT. 
SO strikingly from tlio more fccklc performance of A. 
])rate7isis as does, for instance, the joyous hurst of A. 
arhoreus, hut it had an nnmistakahlc rescnihlance to 
the louder and perhaps harsher strain of A. oh&cui'us ; 
and in all cases was sufficiently characteristic for one to 
he quite certain as to the nature of the performer, even 
when the individual was not in sight. In a word, none 
of our party had any hesitation as to regarding A. cer- 
vinus as a perfectly good species. 
I do not take upon myself a description of the spe- 
cimens which I have had the pleasure of sending to Dr. 
Bree. A young bird, obtained at Mortensnajs, (between 
Wadso and Nyborg,) July 16th., and as it was attended 
by its parents, (both of which were xoell seexi by Mr. 
Wolley and myself,) could only have just left the nest, 
seems to differ only from the young of the Titlark in 
being of a ruddier complexion: a coloured drawing of 
it, made only a few hours after its death, is now before 
me. I have already mentioned what the eggs looked 
like, and it would be difficult in words to convey a 
better idea of them. All the nests I saw were simply 
built of dry bents, without any lining of feathers or 
hair. 
I may however add that it was only in this restricted 
locality in East Finmark — between Wadso and Nyborg 
— that we saw this bird, and I believe Mr. AVolley 
never met with it elsewhere, though a nest of uniden- 
tified eggs, brought to him, in 1854, from Nyimakka, 
{“y. p. 1066,”) a settlement on the upper part of the 
Muonio river, may possibly belong to this species. At 
Stockholm I saw in the posscssioia of Conservator Meres, 
the ingenious discoverer of the cause of the bleating 
noise made by the Common Snipe, a living Eed-throated 
Pipit, which had been taken in a garden near that town. 
