160 RED-THROATED PIPIT. 



SO strikingly from tlie more feeble performance of yi, 

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

 arhoreus, but it bad an unmistakable resemblance to 

 tbe louder and perhaps harsher strain of A. oh s cur us ; 

 and in all cases was sufficiently characteristic 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 pleasure of sending to Dr. 

 Bree. A young bird, obtained at Mortensna^s, (between 

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

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

 WoUey 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 

 me. 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 Pinmark — between Wadso and Nyborg 

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

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

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

 {"y. p. 1066,") a settlement on the upper part of the 

 Muonio river, may possibly belong to this species. At 

 Stockholm I saw in the possession of Conservator Moves, 

 the ingenious discoverer of the cause of the bleating 

 noise made by the Common Snipe, a living E-ed-throated 

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



