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neiglibouihood 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 Aveek's time we 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, fA.pratensis,) 

 which was not uncommon 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. 

 cervinus, which latter we found at times feeding on the 

 sea-shore — a habit we did not there notice the former 

 to indulge in. ISTo one with ears either could for a 

 moment be in doubt about their respective notes. It 

 is true that the full sonff of A. cercinus did not difier 



