Mr. P. L. Sclater on the Neotropical Pipits. 357 
I may state that my remarks are based mainly upon the 
specimens in my own collection (which are 33 in number, 
and embrace examples of all the species recognized in this 
paper), and on those in the collection of Messrs. Salvin and 
Godman. 
But I have also examined the specimens in the Jardin des 
Plantes at Paris; and I have much to thank M. Taczanowski 
(of Warsaw), Hr. von Pelzeln (of Vienna), Mr. J. A. Allen 
(of Cambridge, Mass.), and Prof. Baird (of Washington) for 
the valuable assistance they have rendered me by the loan of 
specimens from the several collections under their charge 
respectively. 
We will first clear off the Nearctic Pipits by saying that 
only two birds of this group are as yet known to be found 
within that region, namely Anthus ludovicianus and Neocorys 
spraguii^. Of these only Anthus ludovicianus intrudes into the 
Neotropical Region, extending as far south as Guatemala f. 
Besides Anthus ludovicianus, T am able to recognize only 
six distinct species of Neotropical Anthi, which I now pro¬ 
ceed to discuss as follows :— 
1. Anthus bogotensis. 
Anthus rufescens, Lafr. et D^Orb. Syn. p. 27; D^’Orb. Voy. 
p. 226 (nec A. rufescens, Temm.). 
Anthus bogotensis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 109, pi. 101, et 
p. 144, 1858, p. 550, et Cat. A. B. p. 24; Baird, Rev. A. B. 
p. 157; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 780 (Merida) ; Tacz. 
P.Z. S. 1874, p. 509 (Peru) ; Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 322 (pa¬ 
ramo of Pamplona). 
This is a very well-marked and unmistakable species, dis¬ 
tinguished at once from its congeners by its dark rufous 
colour above, variegated with black, by the uniform cinna- 
momeous rufous below, with only a few stripes on the breast 
and fore neck, and especially by the wing-end being 
formed by five primaries instead of four, the fifth primary 
* The European Anthus p'afensis has occurred accidentally in Green¬ 
land, and at Norton Sound, Alaska. Cf. Baird, Brewer, and Bidgwav, 
^ North American Birds,’ i, p. 173. 
t Salvin, ‘ Ibis,’ 18o9, p, 9. 
