ANTHUS SEEBOHUMY, sp. nov. 
(PETCHORA PIPIT.) 
3 ad. corpore supra brunneo vix cervino tincto, plumis centraliter nigro-fusco notatis: dorsi plumis nigris 
brunneo marginatis, in dorsi lateribus albo marginatis: secundariis intimis conspicué brunnescente 
cervino marginatis: tectricibus alarum medianis et minoribus valdé albido apicatis, remigibus et 
rectricibus ut in A. pratensi coloratis sed non olivaceo tinctis et rectricibus extimis haud albo sed 
fumoso-cervino notatis: corpore subtis albo, in gutture, pectore et hypochondriis cervino lavato, 
pectore et hypochondriis conspicué nigro-fusco striatis : rostro robusto, brunnescenti-corneo, ad basin 
mandibule pallidiore: iride fuscé: pedibus pallidé brunneis, 
© ad. mari similis. 
Adult Male (Petchora). In general appearance like Anthus pratensis, except that the upper parts are much 
more varied in colour, reminding one of the Aquatic Warbler, the bill is much larger and stronger, the 
arrangement of primaries is as in the Tree-Pipit, the elongated inner secondaries are shorter, and the 
lighter portions of the rectrices are dull smoky buff, not pure white; upper parts generally warm 
brown with a buff tinge, the centres of the feathers blackish brown; feathers on the upper back deep 
black, edged with warm brown, those at the sides of the back margined with almost pure white; inner 
secondaries with rather broad warm buff margins ; median and lesser wing-coverts broadly tipped with 
almost pure white; wings and tail otherwise coloured as in the Meadow-Pipit, but less olivaceous in 
tinge, and the white on the tail is replaced by smoky buff; underparts white, washed with warm buft 
on the lower throat, breast, and flanks; breast aud flanks marked with broad blackish brown stripes ; 
bill horn-brown, lighter at the base of the mandible ; iris dark brown; legs pale brown. Total length 
about 5°5 inches, culmen 0:6, width of bill at the base of the lower mandible 0°18, wing 3:3, tail 2°25, 
tarsus 0°95, hind toe with eh J°85, hind claw 0:44; first primary the longest, the second being nearly 
equal, and the third a little shorter than the second; fourth 0-2 shorter than the first and second, and 
0:15 shorter than the third ; fifth 0:28 shorter than the fourth; elongated inner secondaries reaching 
nearly to the fifth primary. 
Adult Female (Petchora).. Does not differ from the male. 
Two friends of mine, Messrs. H. Seebohm and J. A. Harvie-Brown, who have just returned from 
a most successful journey to the Petchora in Northern Russia, have, amongst other rarities, 
brought five specimens of a Pipit which, so far as I can ascertain, is hitherto undescribed; and 
as they have intrusted it to me to compare and describe, I cannot do better than name it after 
the former of these gentlemen, he being the first to discover it. It is a bird which, though 
tolerably closely allied to our Meadow-Pipit, may at a glance be distinguished from that species by 
the richly varied upper parts, stout large bill, the absence of white on the outer tail-feathers, and 
the arrangement of the quills, which is nearly as in the Tree-Pipit. It bears in general appear- 
ance more resemblance to this latter species, but may be distinguished from that by its almost 
straight long hind claw and the absence of white on the outer tail-feathers, besides by the richly 
varied upper surface of the body, in which it reminds one somewhat of the Aquatic Warbler; 
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