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ANTHUS SEEBOHMI, Dresser. 
During our voyage down the great river we moored our 
boat, on the evening of the 15th June, on the shore of an 
island a little to the north of the arctic circle. The land was 
flat and marshy, for the most part covered with willows, with 
here and there a birch and an alder. Seebohm turned out at 
three in the morning to shoot; and his attention was soon 
arrested by the song of a bird with which he was unfamiliar. 
The bird remained for nearly half an hour in the air, wheeling 
round and round, like a Lark hovering, with expanded wings 
and tail, whilst it was singing. ‘The first part of its song was 
like the trill of a Temminck’s Stint, or like the concluding 
notes of the Wood-Warbler’s song, so aptly described by 
Gilbert White as its “shivering note.” This was succeeded 
by a low guttural warble, such as the Bluethroat sometimes 
makes, as if the bird were attempting to trill whilst inhaling 
breath. After some time the bird alighted on a willow, and 
continued its song there. It was afterwards heard to smg on 
the ground, and was finally shot in a swamp, where it ap- 
peared to be feeding, almost up to its belly water. An 
hour afterwards Harvie Brown’s attention was called to 
another bird of the same species, singing in like manner; and 
after watching it for a short time, he succeeded in securing it. 
Both birds proved to be males, and quite distinct from any 
species with which either of us was acquainted. The hind 
claw is long, like that of A. pratensis; and the general cha- 
racter of the bird resembles a large and brilhantly plumaged 
A. trivialis. Upon our return home five skins of this bird 
were submitted to our friend Mr. Dresser, who, after com- 
paring it with all the known Indian and other species of 
this genus, pronounced it to be new. He will describe and 
figure it in the next Part of his excellent work the ‘ Birds 
of Europe.’ At Gorodok we spent the whole night of the 
17-18th June shooting on the shore. The country here is a 
sort of rolling prairie-land, some parts dry moor, with birch 
or juniper and a few pines, and the lower land willow-swamps 
and marshes. On the marshy ground we saw many Ruffs 
and Red-necked Phalaropes, and found our new Pipit by no 

