484 APPENDIX. 



840 a. Anthus pratensis. The Meadow Pipit. 



Alauda pratensis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, p. 287. 



Anthus pratensis, Jerdon, B. 1. ii, p. 239; Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 32: 



Hume, Ibis, 1869, p. 355 ; 1871, p. 36 : 'id. 8. F. vii, pp. 402, 455 ; 



id. Cat. no. 605 quint. ; Shnrpe, Cat. B. M. x, p. 580 ; Osmaston, 



Jour. Bom. N. If. Soc. ix, p. 191. 



Coloration. Very similar to that of A. trivialis (Vol. II, p. 303), but the 

 hind claw exceeds the hind toe in length. A. pratensis may be distin- 

 guished from A. richardi, A. striolatus, and A. rufulus by having the 

 sides of the body richly spotted and streaked, and from the two former 

 by size. A. cervinus, in young plumag^ is very similar to A. prate n*i*. 



Bill blackish brown, inclining to yellow at base of lower mandible : 

 irides dark brown ; legs light brown (Dresser}. 



Length 6 ; tail 2'25 ; wing 3 ; tarsus '85 ; hind toe and claw '8 ; hind 

 claw '5 ; culm en -6. 



Distribution. Europe, Northern Africa, Western and Central Asia. 

 Specimens were shot in Tehri-Garhwal by Mr. Osmaston at 11,000 feet 

 elevation. The nest and eggs were taken on May 25th. The skin of the 

 parent bird was identified in the Museum, Calcutta. 



Vol. II, p. 378. No. 914, Dicceum chrysorrhwum figured, Raker, Jour. 

 Bom. N. H. Soc. x, p. 161, pi. E. 



Vol. Ill, p. 92. No. 1012, Cyanops asiatica. The birds from North 

 Cachar, noticed on p. 93 as having the mantle-feathers and upper 

 tail-coverts tipped with maroon-red and the under tail-coverts 

 splashed with vermilion, are regarded by Mr. Baker as probably a 

 new species, confined to the higher peaks. This species he names 

 provisionally C. RUBESCENS, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. x, p. 253. It 

 is more fully described in Novitates Zoologicae, iii, p. 257 (1896). 

 He also describes and figures as CYANOPS ROBUSTIROSTRIS, sp. 

 nov. (Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. x, p. 356, pi. F), a small bird supposed 

 at first to be a young C. cyanotis, with the whole plumage green, 

 tinged with yellow on the forehead and wing-coverts ; lores, cheeks, 

 ear-coverts, throat, and upper breast strongly suffused with blue, 

 and the rest of the lower parts except the lower tail-coverts 

 slightly so: tail-feathers bluish beneath. Length 5'4, tail 1'7, 

 wing 3-25, tarsus -75, bill from gape -98, breadth at forehead -36. 

 The bill is shorter than that of adult C. cyanops, but broader at 

 the base. 



As only one specimen is known, it will be better to await 



1 further information, but it is far from improbable that both Ci/ffuoj)* 



rnbescens and C. robustirostris deserve recognition as distinct 

 species. 



Vol. Ill, p. 109. Meropidfe. There are 11 primaries in Merop* and 

 Melittopkayus, 10 in Nyctiornis (Gadow). 



Vol. Ill, p. 125. No. 1038, Alcedo grandis figured, Baker, Jour. IJoni. 

 N. II. Soc. x, p. 539, pi. G. 



Vol. Ill, p. 127. No. 1040, Ceyx tridactyla feeds on spiders. Baker, 

 t. c. x, p. 542. 



Vol. HI, p. 133. No. 1045, Halcyon pileata. This was obtained by 

 Vidal at Mai-wan, south of Ratnagiri, and has since been captured 

 at Kalyannear Bombay: Comber, Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. x, p. 533. 

 Found' throughout the Konkan from Bombay southward : Vidal, 

 op. cit. xi, p. 148 ; Aitken, ibid. p. 164. 



