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RED-THROATED PIPIT. 



in the main witli the above description. It has however 

 partly lost the rust-red on the cheeks, and the crop 

 and flanks are more spotted, "the feathers of the back, 

 head, and nape are dark blackish brown, bordered with 

 greenish grey, lighter on the head and nape; upper part 

 of tail dark brown; underneath the throat and part of 

 the cheeks and crop russet red, with a circlet of longi- 

 tudinal dark spots on the crop. The abdomen, flanks, 

 and under tail coverts creamy white, with a tinge of 

 russet, the flanks being thickly covered with long lon- 

 gitudinal brown spots. Wings and tail underneath glossy 

 mud-brown; tarsi and toes yellowish brown. The four 

 first primaries of nearly equal length, the fourth shortest; 

 tertials very long, the longest going beyond the end of 

 primaries. Upper and lower wing coverts, as well as 

 tertials, broadly bordered with light yellowish or creamy 

 white. The tail is emarginate, dark brown above, and 

 earthy brown below; first lateral quill white, with a 

 dusky patch on lower half of inner web; second quill 

 brown, with a triangular white patch at the tip, exactly 

 like the drawing of these two feathers given by Mid- 

 dendorff". 



The female is half an inch less in length, and has 

 the upper plumage precisely the same as the male; beloAv 

 the russet is confined to the throat and cheeks, while 

 the front of the neck and crop are thickly covered with 

 rich broAvn longitudinal patches and spots, contrasting 

 with the rich cream-coloured ground of the under parts; 

 the under tail coverts have the light yellow russet or 

 cream-colour more pronounced than the abdomen; upper 

 mandible and anterior half of lower dark brown; basal 

 half of lower mandible yellowish; tarsi yellowish; feet 

 darker. 



My figures of this bird are taken from specimens 



