341 Mr. H. Seebohm on the Ornithology of Siberia. 
PLECTROPHANES LAPPonicus (Linn.). 
The Lapland Bunting did not arrive at the winter-quarters 
of the ‘Thames’ until the 4th of June. It was breeding in 
great numbers on the tundra as far north as we went, 7. e. 
lat. 714°. 
ALAUDA ARVENSIS, Linn. 
The only Skylark I saw was one which I shot at our winter- 
quarters on the 11th of June. 
Ovrocorys aLpestris (Linn.). 
The Shore-Lark was common on the Arctic circle from the 
2nd to the 11th of June. After we had passed the limit of 
forest-growth, and had reached the tundra, it was again com- 
mon as far north as we went. 
ANTHUS GustTavi, Swinhoe. 
Anthus gustavi, Swinhoe, P. Z. 8S. 1863, pp. 90, 273. 
Anthus batchianensis, G. R. Gray, Hand-l. of Birds, 1. 
p- 251. no. 3642 (1869). 
Anthus seebohmi, Dresser, Birds of Eur. pt. xlv. (1875). 
It is seldom that the history of an obscure bird is so sud- 
denly and completely worked out as has been the case with 
this species during the last two years. The Siberian Pipit 
was first described by Swinhoe in 1863 (loc. cit.), from spe- 
cimens obtained at Amoy, in South China, on migration. In 
1871 (P.Z.S. p. 366) he announced its identity with Anthus 
batchianensis, based by G. R. Gray on skins collected by 
Wallace in Batchian. In 1874 (Ibis, p. 442) he announced 
the capture of no less than fourteen of these birds at Chefoo, 
during the spring migration, and mentions having seen one 
skin sent from Lake Baikal by Dr. Dybowsky. In 1875 
Harvie Brown and I found it breeding in the valley of the 
Petchora, about lat. 674° (Ibis, 1876, p. 120). Our skins 
were submitted to Dresser, who, believing the species to be 
undescribed, included it as a new species in the ‘ Birds of 
Europe’ as Anthus seebohmi. In 1876 Finsch and Brehm 
procured a specimen in the valley of the Obb, a little to the 
north of the Arctic circle (Ibis, 1877, p. 58). In the same 
‘number of ‘ The Ibis’ I had the honour, I will not say the 
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