614 MOTACILLID-E. 



pale yellowisli buff, distinctly streaked with blackish centres to 

 the feathers, these streaks longer and less triangular in shape on 

 the sides of the body and flanks, which are slightly washed with 

 yellowish olive ; centre of breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts 

 white, faintly tinged with yellow ; thighs ashy brown, white behind ; 

 axillaries smoky brown, with white edgings ; under wing-coverts 

 whitish, mottled with brown bases near the edge of the wing ; quills 

 pale dusky below, lighter along the inner web : " bill brownish 

 above ; feet whity brown ; iris chestnut " {David). Total length 

 6 inches, eulmen 0-55, wing 3-3, tail 2*3, tarsus 0'95. 



Adult female in breeding -plumage. Similar to the male in colour, 

 but a trifle smaller. Total length 5 inches, eulmen 0-55, wing 3"2, 

 tail 2-15, tarsus 0-9. {Mus. H. Seehohm.) 



Young (ISeriug Island, July ; Wosnessensky). Eecalls the colours 

 of the adult, but the plumage is softer ; underneath, the breast is 

 more thickly spotted, and the black spots extend up the greater 

 part of the throat, leaving the chin white. {Mas. H. Seehohm.) 



Adult in winter plumage. E,ather more olive than the summer 

 dress, the head slightly more rufescent ; the broad white edgings 

 to the feathers of the mantle very distinct : blackish malar line also 

 well pronounced ; underneath as in summer, the young birds in 

 their first winter plumage being apparently more thickly spotted on 

 the breast than the adults. 



Some of the specimens from Amoy in Mr. Seebohm's collection 

 are very rufescent above, and are strongly tinged with tawny buff on 

 the throat and breast. They were obtained in May by Mr. Swinhoe, 

 and apparently show that this Pipit is more richly coloured on its 

 return to its breeding-quarters ; the tawny-buff tinge, however, 

 appears to wear off quickly, and the breast in breeding-time is 

 more tinged with yellow. 



Hah. In summer spread over the whole of Siberia, from Kamt- 

 schatka westwards to the Petchora River in N.E. Russia and south- 

 wards to the Altai Mountains; passing through China on migration, 

 and Avintoring in the Philippine Islands, Borneo, Timor, Celebes, 

 and the Moluccas. 



a. iS ad. sk. Schtschiitschja, July 18 Geogr. Soc. Bremen. 



[Dr. Finsch). 



* This skin is not marked with the exact locality, and may have been 

 obtained in Burmah or Malacca, where Capt. Pinwill also made collections. 

 The specimens from the last-named, places, however, were always exaolly 



