114 THE BIRDS OF KENT 



In the neighbourhood of New Romney and Littlestone 

 Mr. E. F. M. Ehnes says : "In the first clump of coarse 

 grass that I came to on Great Stone Point I found a nest 

 containing four newly hatched Meadow-Pipits. A nest 

 of four eggs, well concealed in a dense tuft of coarse 

 grass. My attention was drawn to it by the grasses 

 being parted from one another, the result of the parent 

 birds' continual ingress and egress to and from the nest 

 itself." 



EED-THROATED PIPIT. 



Anthus cer villus (Pallas). Zoogr. Bosso-As., i., 

 p. 511 (1811). 



The only recorded specimen of this species is the one 

 obtained at Rainham by the late Mr. Walter Prentis, 

 who wrote to the Zoologist in 1884 as follows : — 



Bed-throated Pipit in Kent. — " Having read Mr, J. H. 

 Gurney's note (p. 192) on the occurrence of the Red- 

 throated Pipit, Anthus cervinns, at Brighton, I have 

 pleasure in sending you word of another specimen 

 answering the description, which I obtained here (Rain- 

 ham) in the month of April, 1880. I shot the bird 

 myself, one fine day, while it was feeding and singing 

 along the fresh turned-up furrows behind my plough, and 

 not identifying it, sent it to Dover to be preserved for a 

 bright example of the Meadow Pipit." 



This specimen was eventually identified at the British 

 Museum by Dr. R. B. Sharpe. 



