RED-THROATED PIPIT. 229 
ANTHUS CERVINUS. 
RED-THROATED PIPIT. 
(Prats 14,) 
Motacilla cervina, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 511 (1826); et auctorum pluri- 
morum—(Bonaparte), (Degland § Gerbe), (Savi), (Salvadori), (Hume), (Oates), 
(Dresser), &c. 
Anthus cecilii, Aud. Deser. de 0 Egypte, p. 360, pl. 5. fig. 6 (1828). 
Anthus pratensis nubicus, Hempr. § Ehr. Symb. Phys. fol. dd (1829). 
Anthus rufogularis, Brehm, Vig. Deutschl. p. 340 (1831). 
Anthus cervinus (Pall.), Keys. u. Blas. Wirb. Eur. p. xlviii (1840). 
Anthus ruficollis, Vieill. fide Heugl. Orn. N.O-Afr. p. 323 (1869). 
The Red-throated Pipit has scarcely any valid claim to be regarded as 
British bird. The only authority upon which it is inserted in the British 
list is that of a single individual in the possession of Mr. Bond, who 
obtained it from the Troughton Collection, labelled “Isl. Unst, May 4th, 
1854.” There can, however, be very little doubt that it occasionally visits 
our islands, as it has frequently occurred on Heligoland and in most other 
countries in Europe. 
The Red-throated Pipit breeds on the tundras above the limit of forest- 
growth from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but it becomes rarer west of the 
Ural Mountains, and in North Scandinavia is very local. It passes through 
Finland and Russia, Turkey, and Asia Minor on migration, and winters in 
Egypt, Nubia, and Abyssinia. To the west of these limits it can only be 
considered a straggler ; but it has occurred in autumn on Heligoland, and 
in Germany, France, Spain, and Italy. A few of the Siberian birds pass 
through Turkestan and winter in Persia and India; but the main stream 
apparently passes through South-eastern Siberia into China, Burma, and 
the Andaman Islands. 
I first made the acquaintance of the Red-throated Pipit on a bit of 
swampy ground not far from the little village of Kistrand, on the shores 
of the Porsanger Fjord in Finmark. I had everywhere found the 
Meadow-Pipit very common, when I suddenly came upon a little colony 
of the red-throated species, and shot three of them in five minutes. At 
Vads6 I had abundant opportunity of watching the bird. The spring was 
very late; and in the last week of June the birds were only Just beginning 
to breed, and were in full song. The Red-throated Pipit is not so shy as 
the common species, does not take alarm so easily, and is much less 
difficult to approach within easy gunshot. Its song is more melodious and 
prolonged, more nearly resembling that of the Tree-Pipit, which bird it 
