BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 17 



Entire Palaearctic Region, but chiefly east of Ural Mountains; 

 breeding on the tund/ra districts of northern Siberia, and, locally, 

 northern Europe; migrating southward in winter to southern China, 

 Burma, Andaman Islands, India, Persia, Egypt, Nubia, and Abys- 

 sinia; accidental in western Alaska (Aleutian Islands; St. Michael, one 

 specimen),'* and in Lower California (San Jose del Cabo, one speci- 

 men, January 26, 1883.) 



Motaailla cervina Pallas, Zoogr. Eosso-Asiat., i, 1826, 511. 



Anthus cervinus Keyseelinq and Blasius, Wirb. Eur., i. 1840, pp. xlviii, 172. — 

 MiDDENDOEFF, Sibir. Eeia., 1851, 165. — Zandbe, Journ. fur Orn., 1853, 

 Extraheft, i, 64 (Aleutian Islands). — Sdndevall, Svensk. Vogl., 1858, pi. 8, 

 fig. 6. — Passlbk, Journ. fur Orn., 1859, 464-469 (monographic). — Degland 

 and Geebe, Orn. Eur., i, 1867, 369. — Loche, Exped. Sci. Alg6r., Ois., ii, 

 1867, 17.— Gould, Birds, Asia, iv, 1869, pi. 66; Birds Gt. Brit., iii, 1870, pi. 

 12. — Feitsch, Vog. Eur., pi. 16, fig. 5. — Salvadoki, Fauna Ital., Ucc, 1871, 

 126.— Hartinq, Handb. Brit. Birds, 1872, 109.— Shelley, Birds Egypt, 1872, 

 121. — Newton, ed. Yarrell's Hist. Brit. Birds, i, 1874, 579. — Dekssee, Birds 

 Eiir., iii, 1874, 299, pis. 135, 136.— Blyth and Walden, Birds Burma, 1875, 

 96.— David and Oustalbt, Ois. Chine, 1877, 306.— Eidgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vi, 1883, 156, 350 (San Jos6 del Cabo, Lower California, Jan. 26, 1883; 1 

 spec.).— Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi., 1883, 350 (San Jbs6 del Cabo).— 

 British Ornithologists' Union, List Brit. Birds, 1883, 32. — Seebohm, Hist. 

 Brit. Birds, ii, 1883, 229.— Teistkam, Fauna and Flora Palestine, 1884, 55.— 

 Eadde, Orn. Cauc, 1884, 219.— Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 585.— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 699. — Turner, Contr. 

 Nat. Hist. Alaska, 1886, 180, pi. 9, lower fig. (St. Michael, Alaska. )— Nel- 

 son, Eep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 209 (St. Michael; Aleutians?).— Stejn- 

 EGEE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 144 (Bering I., Kamchatka, 1 spec, 

 spring); xxi, 1898, 287 (Kuril Islands; breeding?). — Saunders, Bull. Brit. 

 Orn. Club, xii, 1901, 35 (Winfield, Sussex, England, 1 spec, Nov. 26, 1901). 



A[nthus] cervinus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 14 (Greece). — Eidgway, Man. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1887, 537. 



^n^/iMS cefliKi AuDOuiN, Hist. Nat. de I'Egypte, Ois., 1828, 360, pi. 5, fig. 6. — ■ 

 Blanpoed, Geol. and Zool. Abyssin., 1870, 382. 



Anthus pratensis nubicus Hemprich and Ehrmann, Symb. Phys., 1828, fol. ed. 



Anthus rufogularis Bebhm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 340. — Gould, Birds Eur., ii, 

 1837, pi. 140. — Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 18. — Middendoeff, 

 Sibir. Eeis., 1851, 164. 



[^Anthus] rw/ogiMtom Lichtbnstein, Nom. Av. Mus. BeroL, 1854, 38. 



Anthus pratensis ruflgularis Schlegel, Eev. Crit., 1844, p. xxxvi. — Gould, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc Lond., 1859, 151.— Blyth, Ibis., 1867, 31. 



Anthus cervinus, var. rufogularis Syeveetsov, Turkest. Jevotn., 1873, 67, 140. 



Anthus pratensis (not Alauda pratensis Linnseus) Naumann, Vog. Deutschl., iii, 

 774, part, 1823, pi. 85, fig. 1 (supposed summer plumage). — Eversmann, Add. 

 Pallas's Zoogr. Eosso-Asiat., 1835, 15.— Coues, Check List, 1873, 125, no. 55 

 bis. (St. Michael, Alaska).— Baied, Brewer and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 173, part (St. Michael).— Nelson, Cruise "Corwin," 1881 

 (1883), 6? (St. Michael). 



a Collected by Messrs. Dall and Bannister, of the Eussian American Telegraph 

 Survey, in 1867, but the exact date not recorded. The specimen is in the collection 

 of the United States National Museum. 

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