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INSECTIVOPv^. 

 Family MOTACILLID^. 



Genus Anthus. f Bechste'm.J 



Generic Characters. — Beak straight, slender, cylindrical, and 

 compressed towards the point, with the edges bent inwards 

 near the middle; base of the upper mandible rather elevated, 

 and the tips slightly hollowed out. Nostrils basal, lateral, 

 partly covered with a membrane; tarsi elongated; middle and 

 external toes united at their base; posterior toe very long, 

 and the claw more or less curved; the longest wing tertial as 

 long, or longer than the longest primary. Tail composed of 

 twelve quills, and emarginated. 



KED-THROATED PIPIT. 



Anthus cervinus. 



Motacilla cervina, Pallas ; Zoog., vol. i., p. 511, 



(1811.) 

 Anthus rufocjularis, Brehji; Vogel Deut, (1831,) 



p. 320. 

 Temminck; Man., (1835.) 

 Ch. Bonapaete; (1838.) 

 " " ScHiNz. Dubois. Naumann. 



" cervinus, Keysekling and Blasius, 



(1840.) 

 " pratensis rvfigularis, Schlegel; E,evue, 1844. 

 " cecilii, AuDOUiN. 



" rosaceiis, Hodgson. 



Pipit a gorge JRousse, Of the Fkench. 



BraunJcehliger Wiesenpieper, Of the Germans. 



