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lower parts become a nearly uniform pale vinaceous color, 

 without a single spot or streak ; in some specimens, which 

 are somewhat less advanced, a few spots still remain on the 

 breast, and one or two streaks on the flanks. In all stages of 

 plumage the axillaries are white ; and the greater portion of the 

 wing-lining, and the lower surface of the quills, pale satin- 

 grey. 



Within our limits the Water Pipit occurs as a not uncommon 

 winter visitant to Sind, and more rarely to Mount Aboo, but 

 has not been recorded from any other portion of Guzerat. 



Anthus blackistoni, Swinh. 



GQoquat. Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 171. 



BLAKISTON'S PIPIT. 



Length, 6 '3 ; wing, 3'37 ; tail, 27 ; tarsus, 0'S5 ; bill at front, 

 0-45. 



Bill light brown, darker on culmen and tip ; irides brown ; legs 

 brown, paler on tarsi. 



Upper parts light yellowish-brown, grey on the nape ; crown 

 and back with the centres of the feathers deep-brown ; lores, 

 eyebrow, and chin, cream-white ; under parts cream-white, 

 spotted on the breast, and streaked on the flanks with brown ; 

 axillaries pure white ; wings brown, feathers edged paler ; coverts 

 and tertiaries broadly edged, and tipped with cream-white, 

 forming a double bar across the wing ; tail brown, the central 

 feathers yellowish-brown , edged paler ; the outer tail-feathers 

 white on the entire outer web, and great part of inner near the 

 apex ; penultimate feather edged exteriorly and largely tipped 

 with white. 



Within our limits, this Pipit only occurs as a cold weather 

 visitant to Sind. It much affects the large swamps and marshes 

 that are so frequently met with there. 



GENUS, Corydalla, Vigors. 



Bill stout ; rictal vibrissae occasionally present ; tarsi moderately 

 long. 



Corydalla rufula, Vieill. 



600. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 232 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 490 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 

 IX, p. 412 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 172 ; 

 Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 127. 



THE INDIAN TITLARK. 



Length, 6'5 to 7 ; wing, 3 to 375 ; tail, 2'25 to 2'5 ; tarsus, 1 ; 

 bill at front, 0'4. 



Bill dusky, yellowish at base beneath ; irides brown ; legs yel- 

 lowish-brown. 



Plumage above pale olive-brown, the feathers centred with 

 dusky-brown ; beneath earthy or fulvous white, the fulvous most 



