ANTHUS, 293 



Length, 6-4 to 6 S inches; wing 3-3 ; tail 2-4; tarsus 0-9 ; culmen 0-55 to 

 0-6. The females are smaller. 



Had. Throughout Northern Europe and Siberia, above the limits of forest 

 growth, where it is said to breed. Occurs in England and Western Europe on 

 migration. Winters in Egypt, N.-E., Africa, Beloochistan, Persia and North - 

 Western India, but principally in Southern China and the Burmese countries, 

 extending at least to Borneo. Its northern range to the eastwards appears to be 

 Kamtschatka and as far as Behring Island (Sharpe.) Gates says it is a 

 winter visitor to Burmah ; abundant from October to April in Southern Pegu, 

 and equally so throughout Tenasserim and the Thoungyeen Valley, where 

 Captain Bingham met with it. It is said to frequent the open parts of the 

 country, on waste lands and the margins of rivers. 



805- AnthuS rosaceus, Hodgs., Icon, ined in Br. Mus. Passeres, 

 pi. 1 18; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mm. x. p. 589; Horsf. and Moore, Cat. B. 

 E. I. Co. Mus. i. p. 357 ; Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 287; id., Nes/s and Eggs, 

 Ind. B. p. 386; Brooks, Str. F. 1875, p. 252; Blyth and Wald., B. Burm. 

 p. 96 ; Hume, Sir. F- 1879, p. 103; Scully, t. c. p. 317; Oafes, B. Br. 

 Burm. i. p. 170. Anthus cervinus (nee. Pall.), Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 237, 

 No. 605. The VINOUS-THROATED PIPIT. 



Adult male in breeding plumage. Above ashy, the feathers streaked with 

 black mesially, the head more narrowly, the hindneck less distinctly, and the 

 back very broadly, the latter and the mantle mottled with edges of ashy white, 

 faintly tinged with olive ; rump more uniform olive brown ; upper tail coverts 

 dusky brown, edged with ashy fulvous ; lesser wing coverts dusky brown, 

 washed with olive yellow ; median and greater wing coverts blackish brown, 

 edged with fulvous or olive brown and tipped with dull white ; bastard wing 

 dark brown, edged with ashy ; primary coverts and quills dusky brown, 

 margined with yellowish ; the secondaries margined with whity brown, whiter 

 on the inner secondaries which are blackish ; upper tail coverts and tail blackish 

 brown, edged with ashy or olive brown ; penultimate feather with a white spot 

 at the tip of the outer web, the outer feather white, smoky brown at the 

 tip of the outer web, the inner one with a broad oblique mark of 

 blackish brown ; eyelids and a broad supercilium, extending from the base of 

 the bill to above the ear coverts white, with a fulvous tinge ; lores blackish ; 

 ear coverts dusky blackish, mottled with white below the eye ; cheeks, throat 

 and breast pale vinous ; abdomen, vent and under tail coverts dull white, also 

 the sides of the body and flanks, but washed with olive and broadly streaked 

 with black ; axillaries pale olive yellow ; under wing coverts dull white, 

 washed with yellow and mottled near the edge of the wing with dusky bases. 

 (Sharpe.) Bill dusky, blackish on the culmen and fleshy brown at the base of 

 the lower mandible ; iris dark brown. (Scully.) 



Length. 5*7 inches; wing 3-45 ; tail 2-45 ; tarsus O'S ; culmen 0*55. 

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