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Anthus ludovicianus {(Unci. ), apud Brooks, S. F. viii, p. 485 ; Hume, 



S. F. xi, p. 238. 

 Anthus japonicus, Temm. <y Schleg., Sharpe, Cat. B. M. x, p. 598. 



Coloration. The adult oF this species appears to be of a uniform 

 unspotted vinous colour below, but I have been uuable to examine 

 any but young birds. 



The young bird as usually found in India is ashy brown above, 

 tinged with green, all the feathers except those of the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts centred darker ; the wings blackish margined 

 with fulvous white ; the tail dark brown margined paler, the outer- 

 most feather with the terminal half obliquely white, the pen- 

 ultimate with the inner web broadly tipped white ; sides of the 

 head brown and fulvous ; a supercilium and the whole lower plum- 

 age pale fulvous, every portion of the latter except the chin, throat, 

 and middle of the abdomen streaked with very wide coarse black 

 streaks, those on the breast being particularly large. 



Legs and feet brown ; bill black ; iris blackish brown (Butler). 



Length about 6 - 5 ; tail 2*6 ; wing 3*5 ; tarsus *S5 ; bill from 

 gape -Go ; bind claw *4. 



Distribution. Undoubted specimens of this Pipit are in the 

 British Museum from Karachi, Mooltan, and Darjiling, killed in the 

 winter months ; a specimen from Nepal and another from Um- 

 balla in indifferent order appear to be referable to this species. 

 This Pipit winters in China and Japan, and apparently summers 

 in Eastern Siberia and Kamtschatka. 



Anlhus pennsylvanicus, Lath., of North America is an allied 

 species. It differs in having the lower plumage in all stages of the 

 young very fulvous, and in having the streaks on the breast narrow, 

 well-defined, and detached from one another. 



Anthus gustavi, Swinhoe, from China, Northern Asia, and other 

 parts, is very richly streaked with black above on a bright fulvous 

 ground, and the breast and sides of the body are streaked with 

 ioiiir well-defined black streaks. 



Genus OREOCORYS, Sharpe, 1885. 



The only Pipit belonging to this genus is remarkable for the 

 pointed shape of the tail-feathers. Otherwise it does not differ 

 from the true Pipits. 



The Upland Pipit is confined to the higher parts of the Hima- 

 layas, where it is found on grassy slopes. 



853. Oreocorys sylvanus. The Upland Pipit. 



Heteruva svlvana, Ihnhjs., Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 556 (1845) ; id. 



P. Z. S. 1845, p. 38; Blyth, Cat. p. 134; Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 239; 



Ball, S. F. iii, p. 207 ; Brooks, S. F. hi, p. 252 ; Hume, N. $ E. 



p. 387 ; id. Cat. no. 600 ; Scully, S. F. viii, p. 318. 

 Oreocorys sylvanus (Hodgs.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. x, p. 622; Oates in 



Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 217. 



