4t 
Dr. Miller in Greenland June 18, 1882, all are conszder- 
ably smaller than eggs of Campestris; and are as Davie 
describes them dark in tint; not the least like those of 
Campestris; if these eggs be true; ‘Ludovicianus’ and 
‘Campestris’ can scarcely be conspecific. 
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THE. RED-TFHROATED PIPIT. 
( ANTHUS CERVINUS.) 
Rejected from the B.O.U. List. 
Jot admitted by Newton. . 
Admitted by Seebohm to Place and Figure. 
Professor Newton says of the ‘Unst’ specimen, 
“4 skin of the species in Mr. Bond’s possession, bought 
at the sale of the late Mr. Troughton’s collection, bears a 
ticket indicating that it was obtained in Unst, 4th May 
1854; as it possibly may have been ; but there 1s nothing 
to shew by whom it was procured, or that it 1s not a 
foreign example to which the label has been ted.” 
It was however labelled where procured, and when. 
Mr. Seebohm says it has “scarcely any valid claim 
to be regarded as British.” 
Both authors coincide in the view that there is little 
doubt that it visits Britain; and its recognition is a 
matter of time; as it frequently occurs in Heligoland, 
and in most countries in Europe. 
Professor Newton says the account of ‘Cervinus’ 
given by Dr. Bree, and Mr. Dresser, in their respective 
works, should remove all hesitation in future as to its 
specific distinctness. 
But surely this is distinctly established so far as the 
Pipits of Britain are concerned by the eggs alone, which 
bear little similarity to those of the Meadow Pipits, less 
