The Red-Throated Pipit. The Tawny Pipit. 201 



Family— MO TA CIL LID^E. 



The Red-Throated Pipit. 



Antlius ccyviiiiis, Pall. 



SEEBOHM rightly says that this bird has scarcely any valid claim to be 

 regarded as a British bird. The first example recorded was obtained at 

 Unst, in 1854; a second was shot at Rainham, in Kent, in April, 1880; 

 a third was caught at Brighton, in 1884 ; and a fourth was obtained in Sussex, 

 in 1895. The species being a mere chance straggler to our shores when on 

 migration, and very rarely met with, a description of its habits would be out of 

 place in the present work. 



Family-'MO TA CILLID.F. 



The Tawny Pipit. 



Auihns campestris, LiNN". 



IT is quite possible that this species has been merely overlooked ; inasmuch as, 

 since its first discovery as an accidental visitor to Great Britain by the late 

 Mr. G. Dawson Rowley, a good many specimens have been obtained. 

 A summer visitor to Europe, this bird is said to breed in suitable localities 

 as far north as lat. 57°. In Northern Africa it appears to be partially resident, its 

 winter migrations extending through Egypt to Nubia and Abyssinia : in Western 

 Africa it is known to migrate as far as Damaraland. In Palestine it is resident, 

 and from Asia Minor it extends to Turkestan and North-western India. 



