MOTACILLIDA, 135 
THE RED-THROATED PIPIT. 
ANTHUS CERV{NUS (Pallas). 
On March 13th 1884 a Red-throated Pipit was brought by a 
bird-catcher to the late Mr. Swaysland, the well-known bird-stuffer 
at Brighton, and was examined in the flesh on the following day by 
Mr. J. H. Gurney, who recorded the occurrence in ‘The Zoologist’ 
for that year (p. 192). In the same volume (p. 272) Mr. Walter 
Prentis stated that, in April 1880, he shot an example of this 
species at Rainham in Kent, whilst it was feeding and singing along 
the freshly-turned furrows behind his plough, and sent it, as merely 
a bright-coloured Meadow-Pipit, to Dover for preservation. Both 
these specimens were forwarded to Dr. R. B. Sharpe, who exhibited 
the former—now in the possession of Mr. T. J. Monk of Lewes— 
at a meeting of the Zoological Society, April 1st 1884. Up to that 
year no thoroughly authenticated British-killed example was known, 
although the late Mr. Bond possessed a genuine specimen of the 
bird, labelled ‘‘Unst, May 4th 1854,” purchased at the sale of the 
collection of the late Mr. Troughton. Subsequently, as recorded by 
Mr. F. Coburn (Zool. 1896, p. 101), an example was obtained near 
St. Leonards, Sussex, on Nov. 13th 1895, and this was exhibited at 
the meeting of the British Ornithologists’ Club in the following 
December. 
The Red-throated Pipit is one of the species which, throughout 
the year, enjoy the maximum of sunshine. Amidst the continuous 
daylight which reigns in summer to the north of the Arctic circle, it 
breeds in many parts of Scandinavia, especially in East Finmark ; 
while eastward we find it—in augmented numbers beyond the limit 
