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Vadso and Nyborg) that we saw this bird; and I believe Mr. Wolley never met with it else- 
where, though a nest of unidentified eggs brought to him in 1854 from Nyimakka (v. p. 1066), 
a settlement on the upper part of the Muonio river, may possibly belong to this species*. 
“At Stockholm I saw in the possession of Conservator Meves, the ingenious discoverer of 
the cause of the bleating noise made by the Common Snipe, a living Red-throated Pipit, which 
had been taken in a garden near that town, where, I believe, it not unfrequently occurs in its 
autumnal migration.” 
Mr. Collett informs me that “it occurs in Norway in company with the Meadow-Pipit, and 
is not ashy bird. A nest found at Kistrand contained eggs as late as the 11th of July ; but they 
were close on hatching. By their paler colour, mottled with the dull and comparatively large- 
sized spots of greyish brown that are seen almost invariably in the eggs of this species, and the 
peculiar twisting lines (which, however, are frequently wanting), they were at a glance to be 
distinguished from those of A. pratensis. ‘The nest lay beneath a willow bush, and was con- 
structed almost entirely of straws, save here and there a single horsehair. The latter material 
is found in scarcely any of the nests sent to the University Museum from East Finmark, a 
disparity readily explained from the fact that, in most localities in Finmark, this material is not 
to be obtained.” ‘The stomachs of specimens obtained by Mr. Collett contained the remains of 
insects, particularly Ot¢orhynchus blandus. 
I have in my collection a series of the eggs of this Pipit, all collected by Mr. Nordvi on the 
Varanger Fjord. In ground-colour they differ greatly, some being greenish grey, others brown, 
almost resembling the eggs of the Lapland Bunting; one or two are of a rich brown tinge like 
those described by Professor Newton ; and one has several large brown scratches like those seen 
on eggs of Plectrophanes lapponicus; others have the ground-colour greenish grey, and very 
closely spotted with dark brown; and others, again, have the ground-colour dull brown, and are 
so closely marked with darker brown as at the first glance to appear to be uniform brown; in size 
they vary from 3¢ by $3 to $3 by 23 of an inch. The nests, which were in every case sent to me 
with the eggs, are constructed of dried grass-bents and grass-straws, lined with finer bents. 
I had at first some doubts as to whether Pallas’s name would take priority; but from the 
Academician von Baer’s statement (Bericht tber die Z. R. A. von Pallas, Konigsb. 1831) it 
appears that some copies at least, of the first volume, of that work were issued in 1811; and 
Professor Newton assures me he has seen one of the earlier titlepages bearing that date; therefore 
the species named in the first volume of that work will date from 1811, and not from 1831, which 
latter is the date on the titlepage of the complete work. 
In reply to my inquiry of Mr. Swinhoe respecting the identity of A. thermophilus, Hodgs., 
with the present species, that gentleman writes to me as follows:—‘‘ Soon after my first arrival 
in Hongkong in July, 1854, I went for a stroll with a gun, and among other birds shot a Pipit 
which was unknown to me. After this I was making up a parcel for Mr. Henry Stevenson, of 
Norwich, and enclosed a few Chinese birds for him to submit to Mr. G. R. Gray, of the British 
Museum, for identification. Mr. Stevenson returned me a list of names given by Mr. Gray, one 
of which was Anthus thermophilus, Hodgs. Meanwhile I had forgotten the exact appearance of 
the Hongkong bird; and having made out our other two visitants to be A. richardi and A. agilis, 
* [The later discovery of this species breeding in Ounastunturi makes this supposition more likely.—A. N.]. 
