THE BIRDS OF BANGKOK. 205 



•59 (840). Anthus cervinus (Pall). The Tied -throated 



Pipit. 



Arithu" CfiTinu'^, Williaiiisnii, .Idiirn, N. H. S. .Siani I. p. 108. 



Description. Length about 159 mm. (6.25 in.). The whole upper 

 phimage blackish brown, witli fulvous or pale rufous maigins to the 

 feathers ; wings and tail darlc brown, edged with pale fulvou?, the outer- 

 most pnir of tail-feathers with a long diagonal stre.ik on the terminal 

 two-thirds of their length, the penultimate pair with a small white 

 tip ; su])erL'iliuui, cheeks, chin, throat and breast vinous or cinnamon- 

 red, the breast with a few black streaks ; sides of the breast more 

 thickly streaked ; remainder of lower plumage fulvous, suffused witli 

 pink, the sides of the bodj' heavily streaked with black ; lores and ear- 

 coverts vinous-brown. 



Immature birds iiave the whole lower plumage fulvous, and the 

 whole breast and the sides of the body with very broad black streaks. 

 According to Oates (Faun. Brit. Ind , Birds II, p 810), "at each suc- 

 cessive sjiring moult the young bird acquires more and more vinous on 

 the head and breast, and jirobably becomes fully adult in three years." 



Iris dark brown. Uppei' mandible and tip of lower dark brown, 

 remainder of lower mandible yellowish horn-colour. Legs dusky flesh- 

 colour (yellowish flesh-colour — Oates). Claws horn-colour. 



Distribuiicn. So far apparently recorded only from Bangkok, 

 Central 8iam. 



Huhits, cCt. Similar to those of the last two species described, 

 and found in the same localities, viz., the open fields round the City. 

 This is a cold weather visitor. The first specimen obtained here was 

 shot by Mr. E. G. Herbert in March 1014, and I have since obtained it 

 regularly in February and March, when it is fairlj' common. It must, 

 liowever, also be found in the earlier months of the cold season. 



Family ^1 7;/i(7D7D./E— Larks. 

 *G0. Alauda gulgula sala S\Tinli. The Formo^an Sk>j- 



LarJc. 



A/iiiiilii f/iil;/ul/i (]iait.^. Oates, Fiiinia Brit. Ind., BirJs H, p. 326. 

 Ali(ut/ii (/ult/ula mill, Williauisoii, Jouru. N. H. S. Siain H p. 60. 



Siamese, wn flJS'^nLl fJu (Nok kra-chab fon). 



VOr,. ir, MAY l!II7. 



