io8 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



in tint, though generally uniform in appearance, brown 

 being the prevailing colour. Sometimes the eggs are entirely 

 brown with only a hair-like line here and there, but in most 

 clutches the brown appearance is produced by the mottlings 

 of the eggs, the ground-colour of which is dull white or even 

 bluish-white. Both the brown cloudings and spots and the 

 grey underlying markings are, as a rule, evenly distributed 

 over the egg, and hence the uniform appearance which is 

 created. Some clutches of eggs from the Faeroe Islands in 

 the Seebohm collection vary from those obtained in the 

 British Islands. Six eggs taken by Mr. Miiller in the Faeroes 

 are of a pinkish-grey colour, very pale, and covered with a 

 profusion of very minute greyish-brown dots. Another clutch 

 taken by the same well-known collector, is of a "Wagtail 

 type, being greenish-white, spotted all over with purplish 

 brown and grey underlying markings, in some collecting 

 the larger end. Axis, 075-0-85 inch ; diam., 0-6-0-65. 



III. THE RED-THROATED PIPIT. ANTHUS CERVINUS. 



Motadlla ceruina, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso.-Asiat., i., p. 511 (1811). 



Anthus cervinus, Dresser, B. Eur. iii., p. 299, pi. 136 (1874) 

 B. O. U. List Br. B., p. 32 (1883) ; Seeb., Br. B., ii., p. 22 

 (1884); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., x., p. 585 (1885) 

 Saunders, Man., p. 127 (1889); Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. B 

 pt. xi. (1889). 



Adult Male in Breeding Plumage. Like the Meadow-Pipit, bu 

 the throat and breast not spotted or streaked, of a vinous re 

 like the sides of the neck ; the rump and upper tail-coverl 

 mottled with black centres and resembling the back ; bi 

 dark brown, the base of the lower mandible and the gap 

 yellow ; feet yellowish flesh-colour ; iris brown. Total length 

 5-6 inches; culmen, 0-55; wing, 3-5; tail, 2*5; tarsus, 0*85. 



Adult Female. Like the male, and has the throat vinous, bu 

 not the chest, which is sandy-buff like the rest of the unde 

 surface. Total length, 5-3 inches ; wing, 3-2. 



Winter Plumage. Resembles that of the Meadow-Pipit, bu 

 is distinguished by the. blackish centres to the feathers of th 

 rump and upper tail-coverts ; the median wing-coverts tippe 

 with whitish, forming a tolerably distinct wing-bar. 



