BIRDS. 85 



1. Anthus correndera. Vieill. 



Anthus correndera, Vieill. Ency. Meth. i. p. 325. 

 La correndera, Azura, No. 145. 



This titlark is found in La Plata, Chile, and the Falkland Islands. I was 

 informed by an intelligent sealer, that it is the only land-bird on Georgia and 

 South Orkney (lat. 61° S.) : it has, therefore, probably a further range southward 

 than any other land-bird in the southern hemisphere. It does not live in flocks, 

 is very common, and resembles a true Alauda in most of its habits. This species 

 (as well as the following) is so closely allied to our meadow pipit, Anthus pratensis, 

 that Latham considered it only as a variety ; the latter has a high northern range, as 

 the former has a southern one. There can be little doubt that the bird alluded to 

 by Mr. Yarrell (British Birds, p. 392, vol. i.) as having been caught in the Southern 

 Atlantic Ocean, nine hundred miles from Georgia, was this species, which was 

 mistaken, owing to its close similarity, for the true Anthus pratensis. 



2. Anthus furcatus. D'Orb. fy Lafr. 



A. furcatus, D'Orb. $ Lafr. Mag. de Zool. 1836, p. 27. Voy. de l'Amer. Mer. Av. p. 227. 



My specimens were procured on the northern bank of the Plata. It is more 

 common there than the foregoing species, to which it is most closely allied : its chief 

 distinguishing character appears to be the greater shortness of its toes and of the 

 hind claw. I have seen this species alight on twigs. In the breeding season it 

 flies upward, and then falls to the ground, with raised wings, in the peculiar 

 manner common to the Anthus arboreus of England. It builds on the ground ; 

 nest simple; egg # of an inch in length, and ^ in width; colour dirty white, with 

 small specks and blotches of dull red and obscurer ones of purple. This species, 

 both in habits and structure, appears to be an analogue of A. arboreus of the 

 northern hemisphere, as A. correndera is of A. pratensis. Mr. Yarrell informs 

 me that the egg of Anthus furcatus is very different from that of A. arboreus, 

 although the parent birds are so similar. 



3. Anthus Chii. Licht. 



A. Chii, Licht. Spix. Av. Sp. No. i. t. lxxvi. fig. 2. p. 75. 

 Le Chii, Azara, No. 146. 



My specimen was procured at Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. 



