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on the upper tail-coverts ; the underparts are uniform huffish white, 

 darkest on the hreast ; the lores are very dark brown ; the white on the 

 two outside tail-feathers is suffused with sandy brown ; bill with the 

 upper mandible dark brown, paler at the tip, and the lower mandible 

 pale brown; legs, feet, and claws light brown; irides dark brown. The 

 female very closely resembles the male in colour. After the autumn 

 moult both the upper and under parts are somewhat more rufous. Birds 

 of the year are more or less streaked on the breast and the sides of the 

 throat, a character which is still more pronounced in young in first 

 plumage. The hind claw is somewhat more developed than that of the 

 Meadow-Pipit, but not so much so as that of Richard's Pipit. 



