THE WATER PIPIT. 



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sula of Sinai it was found by Mr. C. W. Wyatt, 

 frequenting the sides of the salt-ponds near Tor, 

 and it is included in Mr. Strickland's list of the 

 birds of AsiaMinor (" P. Z. S.," 1836, p. 97) 

 as being found on the coast in winter at Smyrna, 

 whence it penetrates to Palestine (Tristram, 

 "Ibis," 1866, p. 289). Messrs. Elwes and 

 Buckley have enumerated this amongst other 

 species in their list of the birds of Turkey, and 

 Mdn6tries states (" Cat. Rais. Caucas." p. 39) 

 that it is common on the shores of the Caspian 

 in April, May, and June. The range of this 

 bird eastward is at present hardly determined ; 

 partly, perhaps, because the Pipits have been a 

 good deal neglected for the sake of more at- 

 tractive species, and partly on account of the 

 difficulty which travellers usually experience in 

 the identification of this difficult group of birds. 

 That the Water Pipit penetrates to north-west 

 India is to be inferred from the fact that Mr. 

 Hume sent M. Jules Verreaux a specimen for 

 identification from the Punjab west of the Sutlej. 



