32 MOTACILLID^I. 



Motacilla raii, Newton, i. p. 564 ; Dresser, iii. p. 277. 

 Bay's Wagtail, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 380. 



Rail, in honour of John Ray, the friend of Willughby, whose ' Ornithologia ' 

 he edited and translated ; born 1628, died 1705. 



A regular summer visitant to all suitable localities in Great 

 Britain, but becoming rarer in the extreme north, and only 

 a stray visitant to Ireland, where it breeds in one locality 

 alone. It also breeds in Central and Western Europe, and 

 winters in Africa as far south as the Transvaal. Eastwards 

 it has been recorded as far as Turkestan. 



Genus ANTHUS, Bechstein, Naturg. Deutschl. iii. p. 704 



(1807). 



Anthus = avOos, a bird mentioned by Aristotle, translated Florus by G-aza, 

 perhaps from its looking like a flower, avOos. In mythology, Anthus, the 

 son of Autonous and Hippodameia, was torn to pieces by his father's horses, 

 and was metamorphosed into a bird, which imitated the neighing, but alwayg 

 fled from the sight, of a horse. 



Anthus pratensis. MEADOW-PIPIT. 



Alauda pratensis, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 287 (1766) . 



Anthus pratensis, Naum. iii. p. 774; Macg. ii. p. 181 ; Hewit- 

 son, p. 173 ; Gray, p. 69 ; Yarr. ed. 2, i. p. 427 ; id. ed. 3, 

 i. p. 452; Newton, i. p. 575; Gould, iii. pi. 13; Harting, 

 p. 24; Dresser, iii. p. 285. 



Meadow Pipit, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 389. 



Pratensis = found in meadows, prdta. 



A common resident throughout the British Islands. Breeds 

 throughout arctic and temperate Europe as far east as the 

 Ural Mountains, the northern birds migrating southwards to 

 the basin of the Mediterranean. 



/ [Anthus cervinus. RED-THEOATED PIPIT. 



Motacilla Cervina, Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-As. i. p. 511 



(1811). 



Anthus cervinus, Naum. xiii. p. 97; Newton, i. p. 579, 



