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mer res.).— Thorne, Auk, iv, 1887, 265 (Fort I^yon, Colorado). — Lloyd, 

 Auk, iv, 1 887, 297 (Tom Greun Oo,, Texas, 1 spec, Jan.; Concho Co., flock, 

 Oct. 15).— Cooke, Bird Migr. Miss. VaL, 1888, 264 (Mississippi Valley and 

 Texan range). — Thompson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiii, 1890, 625 (Manitoba, 

 common summer res. ; habits; song). — Wayne, Auk, xi, 1894, 80 (near Mount 

 Pleasant, South Carolina, Nov. 24, 1893; 1 spec); xviii, 1901, 275 (same 

 locality, ^Nov. 17, 1900).— Kohn, Auk, xi, 1894, 181 (Averys Island, Loui- 

 siana, Jan. 20, 1894). — Allison, Auk, xvi, 1899, 82 (near New Orleans, 

 Louisiana, Nov. 24, 1898; 5 specs.).— Beyee, Proc Louis. Soc. Nat, 1897-99 

 (1900), 116 (a. Louisiana, Oct. t(?Apr.). 

 A\nfhus'] spragueii Bidqway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 537. 



ANTHUS PARVUSa Lawrence. 

 PANAMA PIPIT. 



Adults {sexes aWke). — Prevailing color of upper parts dusky, broken 

 on pileum and hindneck by streaks of wood brown or brownish buff, 

 these broad and very distinct in fresh plumage, narrower, sometimes 

 obsolete in worn plumage; scapulars and interscapulars edged, more 

 or less distinctly, with wood brown or Isabella color, producing a more 

 or less distinctly streaked appearance; rump nearly uniform Isabella or 

 raw-umber brown, the upper tail-coverts similar, but with a broad 

 median streak of dusky; tail dull black, the middle pair of rectrices 

 margined with light brown, the outermost rectrix mostly dull white 

 or brownish ' white (the outer web becoming pale grayish brown 

 terminally), the second rectrix similar, but with a stripe of dusk}"^ along 

 edge of inner web; aU the wing-feathers margined or edged with pale 

 brown or brownish buffy, the edges of remiges inclining to pale 

 brownish gray, the outermost primary with outer web white; under 

 parts buffy whitish or dull yellowish white, more or less strongly 

 washed with brown on chest, sides, and flanks, where streaked with 

 deep brown or duskj'; orbital ring and malar stripe buffy white or 



«I find it very diflicult to decide what name this species should bear. Alauda 

 rufa should be at once cast aside as being unquestionably not this species, the 

 colored figures in the Planches ErdurmMea, upon which it is based, almost certainly 

 representing a young Otocoris. The next name in order of date, Alauda bmiariermx 

 Bonnaterre and Vieillot, has the same basis. The next, A^ithvs lutesceM Pucheran, 

 Arch. Mus. Paris, vii, 1855, 343, ex Lesson, Traits d'Orn, 1831, 424 (the latter a 

 nomen nudum), can not be this species according to the description. This brings us 

 down to Anthus parous Lawrence (1862), based on the Panama bird, the type being 

 now before me, which name seems to be the first without question bestowed on the 

 species. 



Anthus parvus is clearly divisible into several geographic forms, in different parts 

 of South America, none of the numerous specimens which I have seen from south -of 

 the Isthmus of Panama being identical with Panama examples, all being larger and 

 otherwise different. I shall not, however, in the present connection at least, further 

 consider these South American subspecies, except to observe that thfe birds from Peru 

 {Anthus peruvianus Nicholson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 390) is certainly different 

 from the Brazilian and Guiana forms, respectively. 



