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THE RED-THROATED PIPIT. 



Anthus cervinus (Pallas). 



On March 13th 1884 a Red-throated Pipit was brought by a 

 bird-catcher to the late Mr. Swaysland, the well-known bird-stuffer 

 at Brighton, and was examined in the flesh on the following day by 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney, who recorded the occurrence in ' The Zoologist ' 

 for that year (p. 192). In the same volume (p. 272) Mr. Walter 

 Prentis stated that, in April 1880, he shot an example of this 

 species at Rainham in Kent, whilst it was feeding and singing along 

 the freshly-turned furrows behind his plough, and sent it, as merely 

 a bright-coloured Meadow-Pipit, to Dover for preservation. Both 

 these specimens were forwarded to Dr. R. B. Sharpe, who exhibited 

 the former — now in the possession of Mr. T. J. Monk of Lewes — 

 at a meeting of the Zoological Society, April ist 1884. Up to that 

 year no thoroughly authenticated British-killed example was known, 

 although the late Mr. Bond possessed a genuine specimen of the 

 bird, labelled "Unst, May 4th 1854," purchased at the sale of the 

 collection of the late Mr. Troughton. Subsequently, as recorded by 

 Mr. F. Coburn (Zool. 1896, p. loi), an example was obtained near 

 St. Leonards, Sussex, on Nov. 13th 1895, and this was exhibited at 

 the meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club in the following 

 December. 



The Red-throated Pipit is one of the species which, throughout 

 the year, enjoy the maximum of sunshine. Amidst the continuous 

 daylight which reigns in summer to the north of the Arctic circle, it 

 breeds in many parts of Scandinavia, especially in East Finmark ; 

 while eastward we find it — in augmented numbers beyond the limit 



