No) 
ie.) 
MOTACILLIDA. 
5. Sikhim Terai, 12th May. Hume Coll. 
3. Sikhim Terai, 18th May. Hume Coll. 
2. Raipur, C. Pr ovs., 15th April Hume Coll. 
(F. R. Blewitt). 
1. Belgaum, 19th April (Z£. <A. Hume Coll. 
Butler), 
4, Belgaum, 23rd April (#. A. B.). Hume Coll. 
1. Belgaum, 9th May (£. A. B.). Hume Coll. 
1. Belgaum, 10th May (E. A. B.). Hume Coll. 
3 Belgaum, 14th June (#. A. B.). Hume Coll. 
3. Belzaum, 26th June (Z. A. B.). Hume Coll. 
5. Wynaad, 8. India. Hume Coll, 
4, Nilghiri Hills. Hume Coll. 
2. Kotagherry, Nilghiri Hills, 5th Hume Coll. 
April (Miss Cockburn). 
1. Kotagherry, 15th April (Miss Hume Coll. 
Cockburn). 
2. Kotagherry, 5rd May (Miss Hume Coll. 
Cockburn). 
3. Kotagherry, 10th May (Miss Hume Coll. 
Cockburn). 
2. Klang, Malay Peninsula, 29th Hume Coll. 
March (W. Davison). 
1. Klang, 3rd April (W. D.). 
. Klang, 23rd April (W. D.). 
2. Biserat, Jalor, Teth July. 
Hume Coll. 
Hume Coll. 
H. C. Robinson, Esq. [P.}. 
Anthus pratensis (Linn.). 
Anthus pratensis, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vig. tab. xxv. fig. 8, a—c (1845- 
54); Baedeker, Fier Eur. Vog. tab. 35. fig. 5 (1855-6: 5); Hewitson, 
Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 173, pl. xliv. fics. 1 & 11 (1856) ; Dresser, 
Birds Eur. iti. p. 285 (1874); See ae § Harvie-Brown, Ibis, 1876, 
p. 121; Seehohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 224, pl. 14 (1884); Sharpe, Cat. 
Birds B. M. x. p. 580 (1885): Sechonnn, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 264, 
1. 584. figs. 9 & 10 (1896); Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 210 
(1902); Radeliffe Saunders, Bull, B, O. C. xiv. no. ciii. p. 42 (1904) ; 
Hartert, Vig. Pal. Faun, pt. ii. p. 275 (1905); Sharpe, Hand-l. v. 
p. 148 (1906). 
The eggs of the Meadow-Pipit are, for the most part, of a pointed 
oval shape and moderately glossy. The ground-colour varies from 
greyish- or brownish-white to pale stone-colour and sometimes it is 
pale blue. The markings on the majority of the eggs are of various 
shades of brown and underlying lavender or purplish-grey. On 
some specimens they are very dense and form a confluent mass, 
concealing nearly the whole of the ground-colour; and on others 
they are comparatively sparse and separate, permitting quite half of 
the ground-colour to be seen. Some examples are almost uniformly 
of a stone-colour, marked with a few spots and fine hair-lines of 
dark brown or black; others are very faintly mottled all over with 
minute streaks and dots. A clutch of five eggs taken at Seasalter, 
Faversham, are very abnormal in coloration. They are almost 
uniform pale blue, with a few spots, blotches, or hair-streaks of 
yellowish-brown, purple-brown, and lilac-grey, mostly confined to 
