THE PENNSYLVANIAN PIPIT. 15I 



and which he identifies clearly with the Ameri- 

 can species. 



Mr. Turnbull, in his " Birds of East Lothian," 

 states (p. 40) that three Pennsylvanian Pipits 

 were shot, at Dunbar in East Lothian by Mr. 

 Robert Gray, of Glasgow. 



Mr. Bond has a Pipit, identified as belonging 

 to this species, which was obtained at Fresh- 

 water, in the Isle of Wight, in September, 1865 ; 

 while the most recent instance of the occurrence 

 of this Pipit in England will be found in the 

 "Zoologist" for 1870. But anyone who reads 

 the correspondence relating to this instance 

 ("Zool." torn. cit. pp. 2021, 2067, and 2100) 

 will see how difficult it is to identify a species 

 when the specimen is not in fully adult plumage. 



When it is remembered that Anihtis ludovici- 

 anus, as stated by Professor Reinhardt (" Ibis," 

 1 86 1, p. 3), breeds in Greenland, and, according 

 to Professor Blasius, is found in Heligoland 

 (" Naumannia," 1858), it is certainly not im- 

 probable that it should occasionally be found in 

 the British Islands. At the same time it is very 



