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iieiglibourliood of Wadso, an example of a Pipit, wliicli 

 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 we were quartered at' ISTyborg, a 

 small settlement at the head of the War anger 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 Red-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 op- 

 portunities 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. 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. cervinus did not differ ' 



