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in its winter plumage is the Anthus japonicus 

 of Temminck and Schlegel. Mr. Blyth thinks 

 that it should probably be erased from the 

 Indian list, as the ordinary Himalayan species, A. 

 rosaceus of Hodgson, has been confounded with 

 it. Upon this point, however, much difference 

 of opinion prevails. Dr. Jerdon, in his " Birds of 

 India," gives rosaceus as a synonym of cervinus, 

 and Mr. Hume is puzzled to distinguish rosaceus 

 from arboreus. He says (" Ibis," 1870, p. 288) : 

 " Typical examples of both species seem unmis- 

 takably distinct, but intermediate forms of the 

 most puzzling character occur, of such a nature 

 that it really seems to me impossible to decide 

 to which species they ought to be referred," 



Professor Newton considers that the Red- 

 throated Pipit is as yet scarcely entitled to a 

 place in the list of British Birds ; nevertheless 

 it is a bird, as he says, whose migratory habits 

 and wide north-eastern range make it very likely 

 to occur in this country, and probably its recog- 

 nition as an occasional visitor to the British 

 Islands is only a matter of time and observation. 



