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Birds of Celebes: Motacillidae. 
222. ANTHUS GUSTAVI Swinh. 
Siberian Pipit. 
Anthus gustavi (1) Swinli., P. Z. S. 1S63, 90; (2) id., Ibis 1874, 442; (3) Briigg., Abb. 
Ver. Bremen 1876, V, 67; (4) Seeb., Ibis 1877, 128; (5) Tweedd., Ibis 1877, 258; 
(6) Sharpe, Tr. Z. S. (2) I, 1877, 338; (7) Tweedd., P. Z. S. 1878, 430; (8) Seeb., 
Ibis 1878, 341; (9) Sharpe, Ibis 1879, 262; (10) Guillem., P. Z. S. 1885, 415; 
(11) id., ib. 552; (12) id., ib. 572; (12) Sharpe, Cat. B., X, 1885, 613; (13) "Wardl. 
Bams., Ibis 1886, 160; (14) Styan, Ibis 1887, 223; (15) Sharpe, Ibis 1888, 201; 
(16) W. Bias., Ornis 1888, 314; (17) Sharpe, Ibis 1889, 431; (17'''-'‘) Everett, 
J. Str. Br. B. A S. 1889, 103; (18) Whitehd., Ibis 1890, 52; (19) Sharpe, t. c. 280; 
(20) W. Bias., J. f. O. 1890, 139; (21) Steere, List Coll. B. & M. Philipp. Is. 
1890, 21; (22) Styan, Ibis 1891, 321, 344; (23) Tacz., Fann. Orn. Sib. Orient. 
1891,1,398; (24) DeLa Touche, Iljis 1892,420; (XXV) Meyer, Abb. v. Vogelskel.TI, 
1892, p. 45, t. CLXXI; (26) Sharpe, Bus 1894, 259; (27) Bourns & Worces., 
B. Menage Exp. 1894, 38; (28) M. & Wg., Abh. Mus. Dresd. 1896, Nr. 1, p. 6; (29) 
Hart., Nov. Zool. 1896, 168; (30) Grant, Ibis 1896, 554. 
a. Anthus batchianensis (1) Gray, HL. I, 1869, 251, Nr. 3642. 
b. Corydalla gustavi (1) Swinh., P. Z. S. 1871, 366; (2) Wald., Tr. Z. 8. 1872, VIH, 117; 
(3) Meyer, J. f. O. 1873, 405; (4) David & Oust., Ois. Chine 1877, 309; (5) 
Salvad., Oni. Pap. II, 1881, 432; (6) Pleske, Bull. Ac. Sc. Petersb. 1884, 128; (7) 
Salvad., 0. P. Agg. 1890, 138. 
c. Anthus seebohmi (I) Dresser, B. Eur. HI, 295, pi. 134 (1875); (2) Seeb. & Har. Brown, 
Ibis 1876, 120; (3) Dresser, t. c. 180; (4) Brooks, t. c. 501; (5) Finscb, Bus 
1877, 58; (6) Seeb. t. c. 128. 
d. Anthus stejnegeri (1) Bidgw., Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1883, 95, 369. 
For further references see Salvad. b 5; Sharpe 12\ Tacz. 23. 
Figures and descriptions. Dresser cJ; Meyer XXF (skel.); Swinhoe 7; Briiggemanii 5; 
Salvador! b 5; Sharpe 72; Taczanowski 23. 
Adult male (October). Head and neck ochraceous brown, with broad black centres to the 
feathers; lores buff, with black haii-23oints intermingled; ear-coverts dull browm; 
a rictal and a submalar streak (extending to side of neck) of sooty black spots, 
with a buff stripe between them; mantle black, with light ochraceous buff margins 
to the feathers; lesser wing-coverts black, margined with ohve-brown; middle 
series black, broadly tijrped with fulvous white; greater series and inner quills 
black, externally margined and tipped with tawny; primaries and tail-feathers 
dusky, externally margined with tawny, the outermost tail-feather white, dusky towards 
base, the next with the terminal tlm-d white, the outer margin dusky; lower back 
and upper tail-coverts olive-brown, the centres of the feathers black; chin and 
throat cream-w'hite ; remaining under-jiarts huffy white, clear oir the abdomen 
and under tail -coverts, broadly streaked with sooty on breast, sides and flanks. 
Wing 84 mm; tail 58; tarsus 23; bill from nostril 10 (o’, Eurakan, Minahassa, 
5. X. 87; Platen in Mus. Nehrk., Nr. 1847). “Iris brown; bill above dark brown, 
below and feet light brown” (Ph). 
Another example answering to Mr. Dresser’s jilate and descriptions was ob- 
tained by our native collectors in Manado tua, 26‘*‘ May, 1894 (0 13365). 
Sex. The sexes are similar. 
Remark. Dr. Sharpe (12) considers that the species is more richly coloured on its return to 
its breeding quarters (May). 
