160 RED-TIIROATED PIPIT. 



SO strikingly from tlio moro f{>cl)lo performance of A. 

 pratensis as does, for instance, the joyous burst of A. 

 ((rhoi'cus, but it bad an unmistakable rcsembbance to 

 tbc louder and pcrbaps barsbcr strain of A. oh s cur us ; 

 and in all cases was sufficicutly cbaractcristic for one to 

 be quite certain as to the nature of the performer, even 

 when the individual was not in sight. In a word, none 

 of our party had any hesitation as to regarding A. cer- 

 vinus as a perfectly good species. 



I do not take upon myself a description of the spe- 

 cimens which I have had the ])leasurc of sending to Dr. 

 Bree. A young bird, obtained at Mortensntes, (between 

 Wadso and Nyborg,) July 16th., and as it was attended 

 by its parents, (both of which were well seen by Mr. 

 Wolley and myself,) could only have just left the nest, 

 seems to differ only from the young of the Titlark in 

 being of a ruddier complexion: a coloured drawing of 

 it, made only a few hours after its death, is now before 

 nie. I have already mentioned what the eggs looked 

 like, and it would be difficult in words to convey a 

 better idea of them. All the nests I saw were simply 

 built of dry bents, without any lining of feathers or 

 hair. 



I may however add that it was only in this restricted 

 locality in East Finmark — between Wadso and Nyborg 

 — that we saw this bird, and I believe Mr. Wolley 

 never met with it elsewhere, though a nest of uniden- 

 tified eggs, brought to him, in 1854, from Nyimakka, 

 ("v. p. 1066,") a settlement on the upper part of the 

 Muonio river, maij possibly belong to this species. At 

 Stockholm I saw in the possession of Conservator Meres, 

 the ingenious discoverer of the cause of the bleating 

 noise made by the Common Snipe, a living Red-throated 

 Pipit, which had been taken in a garden near that town. 



