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natis, reliquis griseis viv albo marginatis ; fronte el stria super" 

 ciliari albis ; capitis et colli lateribus dorso concoloribus seel magia 

 grises alio notatis ; corpore subtus albo, mento immaculate-, 

 gutture nigrofusco etjerrugineo guttato. 



" This species appears to breed in Northern Siberia, and to 

 migrate Southward into China in the autumn. How far west- 

 ward its range extends I cannot positively say ; but there is a 

 specimen in the Cambridge Museum, sent by Mr. Blyth and 

 stated to have been obtained in " India," but no precise locality 

 is given. All the other specimens from India and Baluchistan 

 are referable to L. platyrhyncha. I may add that there is a 

 specimen of L. sibirica in full summer dress, from Siberia, 

 in the Cambridge Museum."— P. Z. S., 1876, 674. 



Anthus Blakenstoni, Sicinhoe. P. Z. S., 1863, 90. 



A. neglectus, Brooks, Ibis, 1876, 501, 1877, 206. 



" Bill, blackish brown on culmen and tip, light brown on re- 

 mainder ; legs, blackish brown, paler on tarsi ; upper parts, 

 light yellowish brown, grey on the nape ; crown and back 

 with centi*es of feathers, deep brown ; lores, eyebrow, and chin, 

 cream white ; under parts, cream white, spotted on the breast 

 and streaked on the flanks with brown ; axillaries, pure white ; 

 wings, brown ; feathers edged paler; coverts and tertiaries, 

 broadly edged and tipped with cream white, forming a double 

 bar across the wing ; tail, brown ; the central feathers, yellowish 

 brown, edged paler ; the outer lateral tail-feathers, on the entire 

 outer web, and great part of inner near the apex, white ; second 

 lateral edged exteriorly and largely tipped with Avhite. 



" Length, 5 ; wing, 37 ; tail, 27 ; tarsi, *85."— Swinhoe. 

 P. Z. S., 1863, 90. 



" Under the head of Anthus spinoletta Mr. Dresser, in 

 'The Birds of Europe/ refers to a similar but smaller 

 Indian Pipit, to which I gave the name of A. neglectus. 

 No description was published, as there was some doubt at the 

 time as to it being a good species. I have since examined 

 many Anthus spinoletta myself; and the small Indian bird can- 

 not be considered identical. It differs as follows: — (1) smaller 

 size ; (%) shorter wing ; (3) shorter and more slender bill. In 

 summer plumage the birds are very similar ; but in winter 

 dress the breast spots are not large and cloudy as in A. spino- 

 letta, but small and much more distinct. Another important 

 distinction is the well striated back of A. neglectus. I have the 

 total length in the flesh of only four examples. They were all 

 exactly six inches. The bill was dark brown, and very pale 

 brown at base of lower mandible ; irides very dark, almost 

 black ; legs and feet brown ; soles of feet yellow. In general 



