NOTICE OF THE NEW OR RARE BIRDS WHICH 
dated 22d October, was accompanied with a specimen of the young, 
only about half fledged, which had been procured on the 13th, and 
stated, that they would be fully fledged in a week or so. Mr. Graham 
adds, “ The burrows are most undoubtedly made by the birds them- 
selves ; the entrance is large, and has the appearance of a rabbit 
hole ; but from this there branches off two or three small passages, 
penetrating deep into the bank, and each of which is occupied by a 
nest ; the nest is not at the extreme end of the passage, for it ex- 
tends beyond, and when disturbed, the birds retreat off the nest to 
the farthest end of the hole.” 
BOSCHAS BIMACULATA. 
Mr. Gould writes, that a specimen of this bird was sent to him in 
December for inspection, by Gardener of Oxford Street. “ It was 
a male, somewhat indistinctly marked about the neck, but in other 
respects agreed with .Vigors’ specimen. It had been caught in 
a decoy in Norfolk, and I believe sent to Leadenhall market ” 
BRITISH DISTRIBUTION OF MOTACILLA BOARULA. 
The instances of this species incubating to the southward of York- 
shire are exceedingly local, and its appearance as a winter visitant 
is even accounted somewhat rare. Mr. Gould writes, in reply to 
some other queries, “ During a trout excursion in June last, to 
Chernies * in Buckinghamshire, Mr. J olin Dodd called my attention 
to a species of Wagtail, which had built its nest in a rose bush, 
trained against a wall in his garden. Judge my surprise when I 
there found a beautiful black-throated M. boarula, sitting on four 
eggs, and so fearless of observation as almost to admit of my touch- 
ing her. Mr. Dodd permitted me to take the eggs for my son’s 
collection ; and a greenfinch having a nest close bye, four of its 
eggs were transferred to that of the Wagtail ; they were hatched in 
• 
Chernies is about twenty-five miles north-west of London, situate in a beautiful 
valley , between chalk hills, clothed with beech-wood. 
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