2 1 LIMONODROMUS ANTHUS 



dusky brown above, fleshy white below ; legs purplish white ; iris nearly 

 black. Culmen 0'55, wing 3*1, tail 2*7, tarsus 0'85 inch. Female similar, 

 and winter dress not differing. 



JTab. Eastern Siberia and North China, wintering in Eastern 

 India, Ceylon, the Andamans, Southern China, Burma, Cochin 

 China, Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



In general habits it greatly resembles the true Wagtails, but 

 frequents forest land and more often perches on the branches 

 of trees. It breeds in the Ussuri country, N. China, and Corea, 

 placing its nest on the branch of a tree far from the trunk ; but, 

 so far as I can ascertain, its eggs are as yet undescribed. 



ANTHUS, Bechstein, 1805. 



313. TITLARK. 

 ANTHUS PRATENSIS. 



Anthus pratensis, (Linn.) Syst. Nat. i. p. 287 (1766) ; Naum.-iii. p. 774, 

 Taf. 84, fig. 3 ; Hewitson, i, p. 173, pi. xliv. figs. 1, 2 ; Gould, B. of 

 E. ii. pi. 136 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit. iii. pi. -13 ; Newton, i. p. 575 ;. 

 Dresser, iii. p. 285, pi. 132, fig. 1 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. x. 

 p. 580 ; Saunders, p. 133 ; Lilford, iii, p. 118, pi. 60. 



Pipit des Prfe, French ; Petinha, Portug. ; Cinceta, Span. ; 

 Pispo/a, Ital. ; Pieplerche, German ; Ghu8piep#r,T)utch ; Pibelcerke, 

 Dan. ; Gnittilingr, Icel. ; Engpiplcerka, Norvveg. ; Angpiplarka, 

 Swed. ; Cici-cicas Lapp. ; ffeind-kirvinen, Finn. ; Lugovoi-konek y 

 Russ. 



< ad. (England). Upper parts blackish brown the feathers margined 

 with olivaceous hair-brown ; rump almost uniform olivaceous brown : 

 under parts white, the sides of the neck, breast, and flanks profusely 

 spotted with blackish brown, the breast washed with buff; wings dark 

 brown, the feathers margined with dull white and greenish olivaceous ; 

 tail dark brown, the outer feather white except an oblique broad patch 

 along the inner web, the next with a triangular white patch at the end ol 

 the inner web, the next three with a narrow pale external margin ; bill 

 dark brown paler at the base of lower mandible ; legs light brown ; 

 iris hazel ; hind claw slender, slightly curved, and as long as the toe. 

 Culmen 0.6, wing 3'0, tail 2-25, tarsus 0'85 inch. The female does not 

 differ from the male. In the winter the upper parts are browner and 

 the under parts tinged with dull yellowish buff. The young bird has 

 the upper parts more boldly marked and the breast and flanks washed 

 with dull reddish buff. 



Hob. Europe generally, ranging east to western Siberia and 

 Turkestan, wintering in Northern Africa; a common summer 

 visitor to Iceland, but a rare straggler to Greenland. 



