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which my attention has hern drawn hy Mr. A. Xewton. 
“Anthiis pcnnsijlvanica , ( A. ludovlcianiis. ) Specific 
characters, — Bill and feet blackish; longest tertial one 
line shorter than the longest primary. The light 
marking on the outer tail feathers shining white, and 
on the outermost one involving the half of the feather, 
— its shaft for the most part white. Body above olive 
green, the superciliary strij)e yellowish.” 
Brehm (Badeker’s eggs,) describes the two birds 
separately, and he refers to the original description by 
Linnaeus, as Alauda spinoletta, who pointed out as 
habitats the residence of this bird and not the Ameri- 
can European straggler. 
Assuming, then, the two birds to be distinct, and yet 
as closely-allied as the representatives of the two species 
of the Old and Xew Worlds so frequently are, the ques- 
tion arises, which of them is the bird wdiich has been 
introduced into the British lists? Mr. Morris has given 
a figure of neither. His bird is evidently a specimen 
of Anthus cervinus. But Mr, Macgillivray distinctly 
describes with much clearness and at great length the 
American species, and he concludes by saying that the 
two birds shot near Edinburgh, are perfectly identical 
with the description taken by him from American 
specimens in Audubon’s “Synopsis.” 
The “Water Pipit” or “Mountain Pipit,” or as it 
was called by Latham, “Meadow Lark,” is an inhabi- 
tant during the breeding-season and summer of the 
Swiss Alps, the Tyrol, the Pyrenees, and other high 
mountainous districts. In the autumn and winter it 
descends to the plains, and then gains its title to a 
“Water Pipit,” by living along the course of rivers. 
It is found in Sweden, and in the mountains of 
Bavaria and Italy, and has occasionally, but rarely, 
