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Genus ANTHUS Bechstein, Gemeinn. Naturg. Deutschl. 

 iii. 1807, p. 704. 



Type : A. spinoletta (Linn.). 



Anthus=di>tos, a bird mentioned by Aristotle, translated Florus by Gaza. In 

 mythology, Anthus, Ihe son of Antinous and Hippodamia, was torn to pieces 

 by his father's horses, and was metamorphosed into a bird, which imitated the 

 neighing, but always fled from the sight of, a horse. 



Anthus trivialis, TREE-PIPIT. 



Alauda trivialis Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 166 : Sweden. 

 Anthus trivialis (Linn.} ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 33; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. 1885, p. 543 ; Sounders, Manual, 



2nd ed. 1899, p. 131. 



Tm'zJis=common, from ft>mm = a place where three roads meet. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Summer Visitor to 

 Great Britain : widely distributed and occurring regularly as 

 far north as Sutherland, but as yet only recorded from Ireland 

 at the Tuskar Bock, co. Wexford, and the Rockabill Light, 

 co. Dublin. It is common as a Bird of Passage en route 

 between its northern European summer haunts and its 

 southern winter retreats. 



General Distribution. The Tree-Pipit breeds throughout 

 northern and central Europe from Tromso to the Pyrenees, 

 the mountains of Italy, south-east Europe, western Siberia, 

 and central Asia. It winters in the Mediterranean basin, in 

 tropical and even southern Africa, and occasionally in north- 

 west India. Throughout east Siberia to Kamchatka, the 

 Kuriles, Japan, eastern Mongolia, the mountains of western 

 China, and the Himalaya it is replaced by A. t. maculatus, 

 which winters in southern Asia. 



Anthus pratensis. MEADOW-PIPIT. 



Alauda pratensis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. 1 758, p. 166 : 



Sweden. 



Anthus pratensis (Linn.} B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 32 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. 1885, p. 580; Sounders, Manual, 

 2nd ed. 1899, p. 133. 

 Pratensis = found in meadows. 



