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Schevelling near Leyden, and on looking at our 
memorandum taken down at the time, we find it 
recorded “ as running very fast, and being rather 
shy.” Mr Vigors has the merit of first making it 
known to our fauna, from a specimen which was 
taken alive in the vicinity of London in 1812. 
He afterwards proposed separating it from the 
Anthi, under the title of Corydalla. 
The crown and nape deep brown, margined 
with yellowish brown ; the back and wings 
blackish brown, the feathers deeply edged with 
yellowish brown, and having altogether a tinge 
of oil green ; middle feathers of the tail deep 
brown, the outer, and that next to it, having con- 
siderable proportions of white ; a streak over the 
eyes and chin yellowish white; the throat yellow- 
ish white, surrounded by lengthened brown spots ; 
the breast yellowish brown, with oblong spots of 
umber brown ; the belly, vent, and flanks, yellow- 
ish brown ; the bill, legs, and feet are yellowish 
brown, the hinder claw very much produced or 
lengthened. 
BOMBYCILLINiE. 
In the next family, the Ampelidtz, at which we 
have now arrived, we have only one bird ranking 
as a native ; but of the other splendid and curious 
forms of which it is composed, we can give no 
idea, without wandering very far from the object 
of our present volume. The bird we have alluded 
