290 MOTACILLID^:. 



got in Siam. It abounds in all the rice-fields and swampy lands covered with 

 grass, and numbers are generally found together, but this fact would not admit 

 of them being called gregarious. Nothing of its nidification in India is yet 

 known. 



801. Anthus striolatus, Biyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. P . 435 ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 248 ; Layard, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 268 ; Blanf., 

 J. A. S. Beng. xli. p. 61 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. x. p. 568. Corydalla 

 striolata, Kelaart, Prodr. Fauna Zeyl. Cat. p. 12 1 ; Jerd.,B.Ind.\\. p. 232, 

 No. 601 ; Holdsw., P. Z. S. 1872, p. 453 J Brooks, Str. F. 1873, p. 369; 

 Walden, Ibis, 1874, p. 140; Ball, Str. F. 1874, p. 417 ; Hume and Davison, 

 Str. F. 1878, p. 366 ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 628 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 103 ; 

 Butler, Cat. B. Bom. Pres. p. 56; Oates, B. Br. Burmah i. p. 167. Cichlops 

 thermophilus, Hodgs., Icon. ined. Passeres, pi. I22A. BLYTH'S PIPIT. 



Like Anthus Richardi, except that the triangular patch of white on the inner 

 web of the penultimate tail feathers in Anthus Richardi is about two inches in 

 length, or never less than an inch and a half, but in this species it is never quite 

 an inch ; the tarsus is also shorter, and the markings on the breast more 

 numerous. 



Length. 7 to 8 inches; wing 3-5 ; tail 3 ; tarsus 1*05 ; culmen 0-6. 



Hab. Throughout India and Ceylon, occurring as far west as Sind. It has 

 also been met with in Burmah and the Andaman Islands. Jerdon records il 

 from Saugor in Central India, Nellore and Darjeeling. It is also stated to be 

 found in South India generally (Madras, Travancore), also in Dinapoor, Sultan 

 poor (Punjab), Sikkim and Nepaul. Visits India in September, and leaves 

 again by the I5th April. 



802. AnthUS campestriS (Linn.), Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl. iii 

 p. 722 ; Blanf., East Persia ii. p. 237. Anthus rufescens, Temm., Man. d'Orn 

 i. p. 267 ; Gould, B. Europe, p. 18. Agrodroma rufula, Jerd., Madr. Journ 

 p. 34. Agrodroma campestris, Bp., Consp. Av. p. 247 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 234 

 No. 602 ; Hume, Ibis, 1871, p. 35; Adam, Str. F. 1873, p. 384; Butler ana 

 Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 491 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 103; Davidson, Str. F 

 1882, p. 310 ; Murray, Hdbk. Zool, &c., Sind, p. 169 ; id., VerL Zool. Sind 

 p. 173. The STONE PIPIT. 



Head, nape, back, scapulars, rump and upper tail coverts olive brown wit! 

 a faint rufescent tinge, the feathers of the head with mesial dark streaks, those 

 of the back very faintly streaked or absent ; rump unstreaked ; upper tai 

 coverts with dusky shafts ; chin whitish ; rest of under surface and superci 

 Hum pale or rufescent fawn, albescent on the vent and under tail coverts ; i 

 brown stripe from the base of the lower mandible down the sides of the throat 

 and another from the gape ; primaries and secondaries very pale brown, edgec 

 externally with pale or rufescent fawn; the secondaries tipped whitish 

 tertiaries brown, with broad fulvous or pale fawn margins ; wing coverts brown 



