THE EED-THROATED PIPIT. 
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Genus ANTHUS, Bechst, 
161. ANTHUS CEEVINUS. ^ 
THE RED-THROATED PIPIT. 
Motacilla cervina, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso- As. i. p. 511. Anthus cervinus, Hume, 
S. F. ii. p. 239 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. iii. p. 299, pi. ; Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. 
p. 96 ; David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 306 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 367 ; Hume, 
S. F. Yiii. p. 103. 
Description. — Male in summer. A distinct supercilium from the nostrils 
to the nape^ cheeks_, chin, throat and breast a fine vinous pink, the breast 
with a few streaks of brown, more numerous on the sides ; lores and ear- 
coverts vinous brown ; remainder of lower plumage pale rufescent, much 
streaked witli brown on the flanks ; axillaries bufi^, tinged with yellowish in 
some specimens ; the whole upper plumage, coverts and tertiaries dark 
brown, each feather edged with fulvous, tinged with roseate on the head 
and mantle after the moult, but soon losing this tinge; quills brown, 
narrowly edged with fulvous-white ; tail dark brown, the outer pair of 
feathers with a large diagonal streak of white extending from the base to 
the tip, the next pair faintly tipped with white. 
Female in summer. Differs from the male in having only the chin and 
throat vinous pink, and not the breast, which is the same colour as the 
other parts of the lower plumage ; the breast is profusely and very broadly 
streaked with dark brown ; there is frequently a row of spots down the 
side of the throat. The other parts are the same as in the male. 
In winter both sexes are alike and are similar to the summer female, 
except that in many specimens all traces of vinous pink have disappeared. 
Numerous birds, however, probably males, retain a flash of pink on the 
chin or throat or on both, and also occasionally on the breast, throughout 
the winter. 
Young birds are very like the adults in winter ; but the lower plumage 
is suffused with a strong yellowish-buff tinge. 
Iris brown ; bill dark brown, the gape and base of lower mandible 
yellowish ; legs yellowish flesh-colour ; claws horn-colour. 
Length 6-4 inches, tail 2*4, wing 3-3, tarsus '9, bill from gape '63. The 
female is of about the same size as the male. 
The Red-throated Pipit is a winter visitor to Burmah. In Southern 
Pegu it is very abundant from October to April; and Mr. Davison 
apparently found it equally abundant throughout Tenasserim. In the 
Thoungyeen valley Capt. Bingham observed it travelling west in April. 
Dr. Tiraud states that it is common in Cochin China; and Mr. Swinhoe 
writes that it is found throughout China, Formosa and Hainan. It 
