MOTACILLID/E. 



The adult female in breeding plumage is similar in colour 'to the male, hut 

 with remains of a fe\v blackish streak on the foreneck. 



Hab. The Himalayas, from Afghanistan to Bhootan and the Khasia hills, 

 extending into Moupin and Kansu in China. Winters in the plains of India, 

 It has been found in Cachar, Gilgit, Etawah, Kumaon, Darjeeling, Nepaul, 

 Bhootan and the Khasia hills. It is believed to breed in Gurhwal, but the find 

 of the eggs and nest has not been properly authenticated. 



806- AnthllS spipoletta (Linn.), Jaub.. et Barth-Lapomm. Rich. 

 Orn. p. 285 ; Sharpe, Cat.B. Br. Mus. x. p. 593. Alauda spinoletta, Linn., 

 Syst. Nat. i. p. 288 ; Grn., Syst. Nat. i. p. 794. Anthus aquaticus, Bechst., 

 Naturg. DeutschL iii. p. 745. Anthus .montanus, Koch., Syst. baier Zool. \. 

 p. 179. Anthus spinoletta, Bp., Comp. List, B. Eur. and N. America, p. 18 ; 

 Walden, Ibis, 1869, p. 213 ; Hume, Ibis, 1871, p. 36 ; id., Sir. F. 1875, p. 491 ; 

 Blanf., East. Pers. ii. p. 236; Butler, Str. F. 1877, p. 230; Hume, Sir F. 

 1878, p 521 ; Murray, H'dblc. Zool, fyc., Sind, p 169; id., Vert. Zool. Sind, 

 p. 170. Anthus Blakistoni, Swinh., P. Z. S. 1863, p. 90; Brooks, Ibis, 

 1877, pp. 206, 207 ; Butler, Str. F. viii. p. 177 ; Murray, Vert. Zool. Sind, 

 p 171. Anthus neglectus, Brooks, Ibis, 1876, p. 501 ; Hume, Sjr. F. 1877 

 p. 345, The WATER PIPIT. 



" In the winter plumage the upper surface is a sort of olive brown, with 

 more or less of a faintly rufous tinge ; the rump unstriated ; the head and 

 back with dark hair brown centres to the feathers ; there is a well-marked 

 dull white stripe from the nostrils over the eye ; the coverts and the quills are 

 mostly hair brown, the former broadly margined with brownish or olivaceous 

 white, purer just at the tips of the coverts, and the latter narrowly margined, 

 the first few primaries with greyish white, the rest with a sort of greenish or 

 olivaceous white ; the tippings of the coverts form two tolerably well-marked 

 wing bars ; the tertiaries, which are somewhat paler than the rest of the quills, 

 are broadly margined with brownish white. The central tail feathers, which 

 are the shortest, are a comparatively pale brown, margined all round with 

 brownish white ; the next pair on either side are very dark brown, very 

 narrowly margined with pale olivaceous, and the fourth with a tiny whitish 

 spot at the extreme tip ; the exterior tail feathers of all has the whole outer 

 web white, slightly brownish towards the tip, the whole inner web svhite for 

 nearly half an inch from the tip, beyond which for another three-quarters of an 

 inch the white occupies (next the shaft) a gradually diminishing portion of the 

 inner web, the rest of the feather being brown. The lower surface is a dull 

 white, in many specimens with a faint vinaceous tinge, in parts with a row of 

 small brown spots down the sides of the neck, with similar spots on the breast 

 and longer striae along the sides and flanks. 



"In the summer plumage the whole upper surface becomes greatly overlaid 

 with an earthy or greyish brown shade, the striations of the back and head 



