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Plectrophanes lapponicus (Linn.). 



The Lapland Bunting did not arrive at the winter-quarters 

 of the 'Thames'* until the 4th of June. It was breeding in 

 great numbers on the tundra as far north as we went, i. e. 

 lat. 7U°. 



Alauda ARVENSis^ Linn. 



The only Skylark I saw was one which I shot at our winter- 

 quarters on the 11th of June. 



Otocorysalpestris (Linn.). 



The Shore-Lark was common on the Arctic circle from the 

 2nd to the 11th of June. After we had passed the limit of 

 forest-growth, and had reached the tundra, it was again com- 

 mon as far north as we went. 



Anthus gustavi, Swinhoe. 



Anthus gustavi, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1863, pp. 90, 273. 



Anthus batchianensis, G. R. Gray, Hand-1. of Birds, i. 

 p. 251. no. 3642 (1869). 



Anthus seebohmi, Dresser, Birds of Eur. pt. xlv. (1875). 



It is seldom that the history of an obscure bird is so sud- 

 denly and completely worked out as has been the case with 

 this species during the last two years. The Siberian Pipit 

 was first described by Swinhoe in 1863 {loc.cit.), from spe- 

 cimens obtained at Amoy, in South China, on migration. In 

 1871 (P. Z. S. p. 366) he announced its identity with Anthus 

 batchianensis, based by G. R. Gray on skins collected by 

 Wallace in Batchian. In 1874 (Ibis, p. 442) he announced 

 the capture of no less than fourteen of these birds at Chefoo, 

 during the spring migration, and mentions having seen one 

 skin sent from Lake Baikal by Dr. Dybowsky. In 1875 

 Harvie Brown and I found it breeding in the valley of the 

 Petchora, about lat. Q7\'^ (Ibis, 1876, p. 120). Our skins 

 were submitted to Dresser, who, believiDg the species to be 

 undescribed, included it as a new species in the ' Birds of 

 Europe^ as Anthus seebohmi. In 1876 Finsch and Brehm 

 procured a specimen in the valley of the Obb, a little to the 

 north of the Arctic circle (Ibis, 1877, p. 58). In the same 

 number of ' The Ibis ' I had the honour, I will not say the 



