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Family MOTA CILLID^E. 



THE RED-THROATED PIPIT. 



Anthus ceruinus, PALL. 



Q^EEBOHM rightly says that this bird has scarcely any valid claim to be 

 V^3 regarded as a British Bird. The first example recorded was obtained at 

 Unst, in 1854; a second was shot at Rainham, in Kent, in April, 1880; a 

 third was caught at Brighton, in 1884 ; and a fourth was obtained in Sussex, 

 in 1895. The species being a mere chance straggler to our shores when on 

 migration, and very rarely met with, a description of its habits would be out of 

 place in the present work. 



Family MO TA CILLIDsE. 



THE TAWNY PIPIT. 



Anthus campestris, L/INN. 



IT is quite possible that this species has been merely overlooked ; inasmuch as, 

 since its first discovery as an accidental visitor to Great Britain by the late 

 Mr. G. Dawson Rowley, a good many specimens have been obtained. 



A summer visitor to Europe, this bird is said to breed in suitable localities 

 as far north as lat. 57. In Northern Africa it appears to be partially resident, its 

 winter migrations extending through Egypt to Nubia and Abyssinia: in Western 



