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mSECTIVOR^. 

 Familtj MO TA CILLID^E. 



Genus Anthus. f Bechstein.J 



Oeneric 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. 



EED-THEOATED PIPIT. 



Antlius cervinus. 



Motacilla cervina, 



Anthus rufogularis, 



cervinus, 



" pratensis rufigularis, 



" Cecilii, 



" rosaceus, 

 Pipit a gorge Pousse, 

 BraunJceJvliger Wiesenpie'per, 



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



(1811.) 

 Beehm; Vogel Deut, (1831,) 



p. 320. 

 Temminck; Man., (1835.) 

 Ch. Bonapaete; (1838.) 

 ScHiNz. Dubois. NAUMANisf. 



KeYSEKLING- AND BlASIUS. 



(1840.) 

 ScHLEGEL; Bevue, 1844. 



AUDOUIN. 



Hodgson. 



Of the Fkench. 



Of the Germans. 



