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in tint, though generally uniform in appearance, brown 
eing the prevailing colour. Sometimes the eggs are entirely 
brown with only a hair-like line here and there, but in most 
clutches the brown appearance is produced by the mottlings 
o the eggs, the ground-colour of which is dull white or even 
bluish-white. Both the brown cloudings and spots and the 
grey underlying markings are, as a rule, evenly distributed 
over the egg, and hence the uniform appearance which is 
created. Some clutches of eggs from the Faeroe Islands in 
,, ie . Seebohm collection vary from those obtained in the 
British Islands. Six eggs taken by Mr. Muller in the Faeroes. 
are °. a pjnkish-grey colour, very pale, and covered with a 
profusion of very minute greyish-brown dots. Another clutch, 
taken by the same well-known collector, is of a “Wagtail” 
type, being greenish-white, spotted all over with purplish- 
brown and grey underlying markings, in some collecting at 
the larger end. Axis, 0*75-0*85 inch ; diam., 0*6-0*65. 
THE RED-THROATED PIPIT. ANTIIUS CERVINUS. 
Motacilla cervina , Pall. Zoogr. Rosso.- Asiat., i., p ui (iSii) 
Anthns cervinus, Dresser, B. Eur. hi., p. 200, p l. 126 (1874V 
B. O. U. List Br. B p. 32 (1883); Seeb?, Br. B.,1 p ^ 
(1884); Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., x„ p. 585 (188O ■ 
Saunders, Man., p. 127 (1889); Lilford, Col. Fig. Br B 
pt. xi. (1889). ’’ 
Adult Male in Breeding Plumage.— Like the Meadow-Pipit but 
the throat and breast not spotted or streaked, of a vinous red 
like the sides of the neck; the rump and upper tail-coverts 
mottled with black centres and resembling the back; bill 
daik biown, the base of the lower mandible and the gape 
yellow ; feet yellowish flesh-colour ; iris brown. Total length, 
5-6 inches; culmen, 0-55; wing, 3-5; tail, 2-5; tarsus, 0-85. 
Adult Female. — Like the male, and has the throat vinous, but 
not the chest, which is sandy-buff like the rest of the under 
surface. Total length, 5-3 inches; wing, 3 2. 
Winter Plumage.— Resembles that of the Meadow-Pipit, but 
is distinguished by the blackish centres to the feathers of the 
rump and upper tail-coverts ; the median wing-coverts tipped 
with whitish, forming a tolerably distinct wing-bar. 
