46 MOTACILLID^E. 



Distribution in tlie British Islands. Eesident. Generally 

 distributed, especially in the nesting-season ; many leave 

 our islands in the autumn and return in spring and are 

 Summer Visitors. It is also a common Winter Visitor and Bird 

 of Passage to our islands from the Continent and Iceland. 



General Distribution. The Meadow-Pipit breeds in Europe 

 from the North Cape to the Pyrenees, Italy and the 

 Carpathians ; also in western Siberia and north Turkestan. 

 It is a partial resident in Italy and Palestine and occasionally 

 in more northern countries ; it winters in southern Europe, 

 northern Africa, Asia Minor, and Egypt. 



Anthus cerviims. RED-THROATED PIPIT. 



Motacilla cervina Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. 1827, 

 p. oil : Kolyma river, Siberia. 



Anthus cervinus (Pallas) ; . O. IT. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 32 ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. 1885, p. 585; Sounders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 135. 



Cervlnus=o( a deer, and so tawny- throated. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor. Has 

 occurred in Unst and Fair Isle, Shetlands, in 1854 and 1908; 

 Sussex in Nov. 1895 and 1901, and May 1913 ; Kent, April 

 1909 ; co. Mayo, May 1895 ; St. Kilda, Sept. 1910 and 

 Oct. 19.11 ; and the Orkneys, Oct. 1913. 



General Distribution. The Red-throated Pipit breeds 

 from Scandinavia to Kamchatka and the Aleutian Islands, 

 from the northern limit of forest growth to the Arctic 

 Ocean, and winters in north Africa, especially in Egypt, 

 extending to Uganda ; also in south Arabia, India, and 

 the Malay Archipelago. It occurs irregularly in western 

 Europe. 



Anthus campestris. TAWNY PIPIT. 



Alauda campestris Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758. p. 166 : 



Sweden. 

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



