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THE ANIMAL LIFE OF SIBERIA 



shore-lark (0. alpestris), appears as a winter visitor to Britain and the German 

 coast, reaching as far south as Carinthia. Some 7 inches in length, it has a yellow 

 crown and throat, with a broad black band across the crown. In habits it 

 resembles the skylark. Both the grey and the white wagtail are breeding-birds in 

 Siberia, although the latter does not reach the Arctic Circle. Another kind, the 

 blue-headed wagtail, is represented in northern Asia, from Scandinavia to eastern 

 Siberia, by the grey-headed wagtail (Motacilla borealis). Of the pipits, the tree- 

 pipit, water-pipit, and the meadow-pipit are also Siberian breeding-birds, but 



/// most especially so 



is the red-throated 

 pipit (An thus cer- 

 vinus), as it is 

 to be met with 

 throughout the 

 north. This bird 

 visits Germany and 

 Austria on migra- 

 tion, and has been 

 caught in Bohemia, 

 Salzburg, the Tyrol, 

 and Styria. An- 

 other species, the 

 Scandinavian rock- 

 pipit^, rupestris), 

 which is resident 

 in Scandinavia and 

 Finland, is known 

 in India as a bird 

 of passage, and thus 

 seems widely spread 

 over northern Asia. 

 It is distinguished 

 from the rock-pipit 

 resident in the Bri- 

 tish Isles by the 

 vinous tint of the 

 breast. 

 A considerable variety of buntings inhabit Siberia, among them 

 being the snow-bunting and the Lapland bunting. The yellow- 

 isted lmi. ling (Emheriza aureola) commonly ranges from northern Russia to 

 south-eastern Siberia, but has been shot in Austrian Silesia. The pine-bunting 

 ,/; - kucocephala), which inhabits the same localities, has been taken in lower 

 A '^"' ;l The ,iMl " bunting (E.pusilla) inhabits Siberia and northern Russia, and 

 in [ndia, Burma, and China; and from Lapland to the Pacific is found 

 he rustic 1 muting ( /;. rustica), a species also abundant in China during 

 winter. 



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PINE fiROSBKAK. 



Buntings. 



