320 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



697. Anthus pensilvanicus (LATH.). 



American Pipit. 



Alauda pensilvanica LATH. Synop. Suppl. I. 1787, 287. 

 Anthus pensilvanicus THIENEM. Rhea, II. 1849, I 7 I - 



[Bi6 5 , C 55 , R 7 i,C8 9 .] 



HAB. North America at large, breeding in the higher parts of the 

 Rocky Mountains and subarctic districts, and wintering in the Gulf 

 States, Mexico, and Central America. Accidental in Europe. 



[698.] Anthus pratensis (LINN.). 



Meadow Pipit. 



A lauda pratensis LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 166. 



Anthus pratensis BECHST. Gem. Naturg. Deutschl. III. 1807, 732. 



[B , C 55&>, R 72, C 88.] 

 HAB. Europe, straggling to Greenland (and Alaska ?). 



[699.] Anthus cervinus (PALLAS). 



Red-throated Pipit. 



Motacilla cervina PALLAS, Zoog. Rosso- As. I. 1826, 511. 

 Anthus cervinus KEYS. & BLAS. Wirb. Eur. I. 1840, p. xlviii. 



[B , C , R , C .] 



HAB. Northern parts of the Old World. Accidental in Lower 

 California. St. Michael's and Aleutian Islands, Alaska ? 



SUBGENUS NEOCORYS SCLATER. 

 Neocorys SCL. P. Z. S. 1857, 5. Type, A lauda spragueii AUD. 



700. Anthus spragueii (AUD.). 



Sprague's Pipit. 



A lauda spragueii AUD. B. Am. VII. 1843, 335 pi- 4^6. 

 Anthus spraguei BAIRD, Rev. Am. B. I. Oct. 1864, 155. 



[B 166, C 56, R 73, C 90.] 



HAB. Interior plains of North America, breeding from Central Da- 

 kota northward to the Saskatchewan district, and from the Red River 



