204 MR. W. J, F. WltLIAMSON ON 



remaining" tall-featliers cLark brown, witli pale margins; snpercilium and 

 lower plumage pale fulvous, the sides of the throat and fore neck, and 

 the whole breast, streaked with dark brown ; thinks darker fulvous, 

 with a few indistinct darkisli streaks. 



Iris dark brown. Upper mandible dark brown, lower pale horn- 

 oolour, duslcv at tip and j-ellowish horn-colour at base, Mouth and 

 gape yellowish. Legs pale flesh-colour, with pinkish or yellowish tinge, 

 soles paler. Claws horn-colour. 



Bidrilndion. So far only recordel by (iyldenstolpe from 

 Northern iSiam, and by myself from the neighbourhood of Bangkok, 

 in the Central division of the conntr}'. 



Ilahiis, cf'c. A winter visitor to Siam from Central and Northern 

 Asia. 1 have obtained it in Bangkok from Novendjer to May, when it 

 is common in tlie open fields round the City. I believe this Pipit is 

 entirely a ground bird, wliere it feeds on insects by making rapid runs 

 at them. 



58 (817). Anthus rufulu? VieiU. The Indian Pipit. 



AnthiK niftilii.", CiiiWv'u'-Gnut, Fns.-. Jtala.v. Birds (IOCS), p. 71; 



Gydenstolpe, Join'ii. N. H. S. Siam I, p. 171. 



AntJni.i )/iiilai/f)ixi/', lioliinson and Klo.'is, IIjis l!)ll, p. 74. 



Aiit/iiis n'riiiinii malni/cns/t:, Gvldenstolpe 1916. p. 32. 

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Siamese, ^jn r)3t^f\ ( Nok-kra-tid. ) 



Description. Length about 1G5 mm. (GS in.). In colouration 

 this bird exactly resembles the last species (A. i-icJianJi), of which it 

 is a miniature, e.xcept that the bill is proportionately larger. 



Iris dark brown. Upper mandible and tip of lower dark brown, 

 remainder of lower mandible yellowish or pinkish flesh-colour. Legs 

 pale yellowish flesh-colour. Claws horn-colour. 



Bidnliidion. Recorded, up to the present, only frc-m Northern. 

 Central and Peninsular Siam. 



Ilahiis, &c. A resident species, with habits precisely similar to 

 those of A. rirhardi, just described, in whose company the bird is fre- 

 quently foun 1. This is not meant to imply that Pipits are in the least 

 gregarious — I should ratlier describe them as solitary — but both these 

 species occur in the same fields, feeding near each other. This Pijiit is 

 a regular fretpienter of our lawns, except during the breeding season 

 (March to July or August ), when it keeps to the fields. 



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