3 
aif 
e) 
D, 
abdomine centrali et subcaudalibus albicantibus cervino lavatis: subtectricibus alarum grisescenti- 
albidis: rostro et pedibus saturaté brunneis: iride brunnea. 
2 ad. haud a mari distinguenda. 
3 ad. hiem. corpore supra olivascenti-brunneo: subtis albus: pectore, gutture laterali et hypochondriis 
brunneo maculatis: cauda et alis intus ut in ptilosi eestiva picturatis. 
Adult Male in breeding-plumage (Southern France, June). Upper parts dull olive-brown on the head and 
nape, washed with dark ashy grey; rump more olive in tinge than the rest of the upper parts; wings 
dark brown, the primaries narrowly edged on the outer web, and the wing-coverts broadly terminated 
with dirty buffy white; secondaries, especially the elongated inner ones, broadly margined on the outer 
webb with dull olive; tail dark brown, the outer rectrix on each side, with the terminal third, obliquely 
white, this colour on the outer web reaching nearly to the basal third, and on the inner web narrowing 
from near the tip almost to the centre of the feather; a tolerably broad superciliary line from the base 
of the bill above the lores, passing above and behind the eye, pale yellowish buff; lores and sides of 
the face dull greyish olive; chin pale buffy white; throat, breast, and underparts generally, pale rosy 
ferruginous, fading into dull white, washed with pale ferruginous on the centre of the abdomen and the 
under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts greyish white; beak and legs blackish brown; iris dark brown. 
Total length about 6 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3°55, tail 2:8, tarsus 1-0. 
Female. Similar to the male in plumage. 
Adult Male in winter (Macedonia, 9th November). Upper parts as in the summer-plumage, but lacking the 
grey tinge on the crown and nape; underparts white, on the breast, sides of the neck, and flanks 
marked with blurred spots and dashes dull brown in colour. 
In the series I have before me I find that there is considerable variation in the purity of the colour 
of the underparts in the summer-plumage; for in some it has a dull rusty shade, and in others the 
colour is more rosy and purer. In order to show the variation in size of specimens from various 
localities I give the following Table :— 
Culmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 
inch. — inches. inches. 5 inch. 
England (Brighton) . . . . . 0°68 3°28 2°55 1:0 
Folland eee ROLE Soh O37. 3°55 2°75 1:0 
ROSE MMM eee eee sen Hee ire vente Onset 3:48 2:6 1:0 
Switzerland@egs eae een 0.08 3°6 2°75 1:0 
Pranceyy eek hs ha eh paiite nes ORT 3°55 2°8 1:0 
Greece ea ve: esa! Fe Hit Beare One 3°55 2°85 1:0 
urkeyae tac peer emetcenyel acct eos Magne OY 3:5 2°61 1:0 
Verichon tore, a co eso ees O66 3°30 2°51 1:0 
Piedmonte ya eee te eee 0:69 3°30 271 1:0 
INH, g 6 5 5 0 6 oo ol OCD 3°30 2:63 10 
Persiavwed Gla saed 4 diser merc O365—077, 34 -3'5 2:62-2'8 0:93-1:0 
Baluchistan. . . . . . . . 0°65-0°7 3°3 -3°55 2°7 —2°85 0:93-1:0 
N.W. India (A. neglectus) . . . 06 3'05-3:18 2:3 -2:°45 0-9 -0:94 
Tue Water-Pipit inhabits Central Europe and Northern Africa, being met with to the eastward 
through Persia and India to China, South-eastern Siberia, and the Kurile Islands. 
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