BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



IRcb^^tbroateJ) pipit 



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The Red-throated Pipit {Anthits cervinus, Pallas) is an 

 extremely rare spring migrant to the British Islands, visiting 

 Arctic Europe and Asia during summer, and wintering 

 in North-Eastern Africa and the South of Asia. The adult 

 male in summer has the upper parts sandy-brown, tinged 

 with olive ; centre of feathers with bold markings of dark 

 brown ; wings, dark brown, margined with paler ; above 

 and below the eye, sides of neck, throat, and chest, rusty 

 red ; tail, dark brown, with paler margins ; two outermost 

 feathers principally white ; under parts, pale buffish-brown, 

 thinly streaked with dark brown ; irides, brown ; bill, 

 brown; base beneath, yellowish; legs and feet, light 

 brown. Length, about six inches. The adult female in 

 summer is similar to the male, but lacks the rusty red on 

 the chest. 



