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arrivals are lighter and brownec than the wintering birds. 

 The colour in winter appears to be darker and distinctly 

 greener above, and I have seen very yellow birds in the early 

 spring flocks, which, however, may have been buff-suffused 

 young. Macgillivray's greenish brown in winter and greyish 

 brown in summer seems more correct than many descriptions. 

 Length, 575 ins. Wing, 3*2 ins. Tarsus, '85 in. 



Red-throated Pipit. Antlms cervimis (Pallas). 



The Red-throated Pipit is a northern Pakearctic species 

 which winters in Africa and southern Asia. Occasionally it 

 wanders westward and has been noticed in the Shetlands, 

 Orkneys, St. Kilda, Ireland and in Kent and Sussex, but the 

 visits cannot be looked upon as regular. Two specimens 

 from which the bird was first admitted as British have been 

 shown to be brightly coloured Meadow-Pipits, but others are 

 genuine. The most marked distinction is in the centres of the 

 feathers on the rump and upper tail-coverts, which are 

 distinct and black in this species, and often hardly perceptible 

 in the other. The chin and throat are reddish chestnut in 

 summer, distinguishing it further — at most they are but tinged 

 with pink in the Meadow-Pipit — whilst the eye-streak is not 

 only better defined but is rufous-buff. In winter it closely 

 resembles the Meadow-Pipit. Length, 5 ins. Wing, 3-3 ins. 

 Tarsus, '9 in. 



Tawny Pipit. Anthus campestris (Linn.). 



The Tawny Pipit is a European and north African bird 

 which winters in tropical Africa. As a wanderer on autumn 

 migration it has reached various parts of England, from the 

 Scilly Islands to Yorkshire, and there is some evidence that 

 it has nested in Sussex, not very surprising, since it nests on 



