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prepared specimens to England, and, with the late Mr. Yavrell, 
whose friendship I had the happiness to possess, I went through 
a minute comparison of my skins and the skins in his posses¬ 
sion of the A. pratensis obtained in England and other parts of 
the world, and I was fortified by his veteran experience in con¬ 
cluding that the Madeiran specimens were in no degree entitled 
to be distinguished from specimens of the A. pratensis from 
other parts. 
I agree with M. Bolle in thinking that ff it is more than a 
probability, it is almost a certainty, that the Pipit of Madeira, 
which is figured in the catalogues of the birds of that island 
under the name of A. pratensis, is identical with the A. berthe- 
lotii” of M. Bolle. Indeed the words attributed by M. Bolle to 
Mr. J. Yate Johnson, and used to corroborate this opinion, are a 
verbal quotation, whether acknowledged or not, from my paper 
in the ‘ Annals and Magazine of Natural History/ ser. 2. vol. xv. 
p. 433. 
Description of the Anthus pratensis of Madeira, taken from 
specimens in the flesh. 
Anthus pratensis, Bechst.; Meadow Pipit. Portuguese, Corre 
de Carninho. inches. lines. 
Entire length ........ 6 3 
Length of bill from forehead ... 0 6^ 
„ gape.0 8| 
Length of tarsus.0 10J 
„ hind toe, claw included , . 0 9 
„ tail.2 4i 
From carpus to the end of the wing .2 10^ 
Upper parts greyish brown, in the centre of the feathers a 
mark of olive-brown, above the eye a yellowish-white streak; 
throat, vent, and under tail-coverts brownish white; the rest of 
the under parts white, marked with streaks of greyish brown; 
quills and tail rusty brown; the outer tail-feather white on the 
outer web, with a large conical mark of white on the inner w’eb; 
the second tail-feather with a smaller conical mark of white on 
the inner web; bill brown on the upper mandible and tip, 
yellowish white at the base of the under mandible; feet light 
