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iner res.). — Thokne, Aiik, iv, 18.S7, 265 (Fort L}'on, Colorado). — Lt,oyi>, 

 Auk, iv, 1887, 297 (Tom Green Co., Texas, 1 sjiec, Jan.; Concho Co., flock, 

 Oct. 15).— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. Val., 1888, 264 (Mississippi Valley and 

 Texan range).— Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus'., xiii, 1890, 625 (Manitoba, 

 common summer res. ; habits; song). — WAyne, Auk, xi, 1894, 80 (near Mount 

 Pleasant, South Carolina, Nov. 24, 1893; 1 spec); xviii, 1901, 275 (same 

 locality, Nov. 17, 1900).— Kohn, Auk, xi, 1894, 181 (Averys Island, Loui- 

 siana, Jan. 20, 1894). — Allison, Auk, xvi, 1899, 82 (near New Orleans, 

 Louisiana, Nov. 24, 1898; 5 specs.). — Beyer, Proc. Louis. Soc. Nat., 1897-99 

 (1900), 116 (s. Louisiana, Oct. to Apr.). 

 Alnlhiisl spraguen Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 5.37. 



ANTHUS PARVUS" Lawrence. 

 PANABL&. PIPIT. 



Adults {sexes «Z^'^e).— Prevailing color of upper parts dusky, broken 

 on pileum and hindneck by streaks of wood brown or brownish buff, 

 these broad and yery distinct in fresh plumage, narrower, sometimes 

 obsolete in worn plumage; scapulars and interscapulars edged, more 

 or less distinctly, with wood brown or Isabella color, producing a more 

 or less distinctly streaked appearance; rump nearly uniform isabelhi or 

 raw-umber brown, the upper tail-coyerts similar, but with a broad 

 median streak of dusky; tail dull black, the middle pair of rectrices 

 margined with light brown, the outermost rectrix mostly dull white 

 or brownish white (the outer web becoming pale grayish brown 

 terminally), the second rectrix similar, but with a stripe of dusky along 

 edge of inner web; all the wing-feathers margined or edged with pale 

 brown or brownish buffy, the edges of remiges inclining to pale 

 brownish gray, the outermost primary with outer web white; under 

 parts buflt'y whitish or dull yellowish white, more or less strongly 

 washed with brown on chest, sides, and flanks, where streaked with 

 deep brown or dusky; orbital ring and malar stripe buffy white or 



«I find it very difficult to decide what name this species should bear. Alauda 

 rufa should be at once cast aside as being unquestionably not this species, the 

 colored figures in the Plandies Enlumimes, upon which it is based, almost certainly 

 representing a young Otocoris. The next name in order of date, Aktuda honariensia 

 Bonnaterre and Vieillot, has the same basis. The next, Anthus. InteitceDs Pucheran, 

 Arch. Mus. Paris, vii, 1855, 343, ex Lesson, Traite d'Orn, 1831, 424 (the latter a 

 nomen nudum), can not be this species according to the description. This brings us 

 down to Anthus jmrma Lawrence (1862), based on the Panama bird, the type being 

 now before me, which name seems to be the first without question bestowed on the 

 species. 



Authiis parvus is clearly divisible into several geographic forms, in different parts 

 of South America, none of the numerous specimens which I have seen from south of 

 the Isthmus of Panama being identical with Panama examples, all being larger and 

 otherwise different. I shall not, however, in the present connection at least, further 

 consider these South American subspecies, except to observe that the birds from Peru 

 {Anthus peruvianvs. Nicholson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 390) is certainly different 

 from the Brazilian and Guiana forms, respectively. 



