. Birds. Birds. ANTHrs. 307 fulvous or sandy buff, the breast with a few ill-defined and pale brown streaks. Iris dark brown; legs and feet yellowish flesh; bill dark brown above, flesh-colour below (Hume Coll.). Length about 8-5; tail 3-6; wing 4-1; tarsus l-l; bill from gape '9 J hind claw about â 45. This species very closely resembles A. sordidw, Eiipp., from Palestine, Arabia, and Africa, but is much larger and more brightly coloured than that bird. Agrodroma similis of Jerdon was founded on a single specimen, the locality of which was not mentioned in the original description, but was su
. Birds. Birds. ANTHrs. 307 fulvous or sandy buff, the breast with a few ill-defined and pale brown streaks. Iris dark brown; legs and feet yellowish flesh; bill dark brown above, flesh-colour below (Hume Coll.). Length about 8-5; tail 3-6; wing 4-1; tarsus l-l; bill from gape '9 J hind claw about â 45. This species very closely resembles A. sordidw, Eiipp., from Palestine, Arabia, and Africa, but is much larger and more brightly coloured than that bird. Agrodroma similis of Jerdon was founded on a single specimen, the locality of which was not mentioned in the original description, but was subsequently, in the ' Illustrations of Indian Ornithology,' stated to be Jdlna. In the 'Birds of India' the Jalna bird was referred to A. sordidci, the name there adopted for the present species. Distribution. A winter visitor to the plains of the north-west of India, extending to the east as far as the Sikhim terai and Mughal Sarai, and to the south as far as Khandesh, Jalna, and Nagpur. This Pipit retires in summer to the Himalayas, where it breeds from Hazara to Sikhim, up to about 6000 feet elevation. The range of this bird extends to Afghanistan, Baluchistan, and Persia. Habits, Sfc. Breeds at Murree and in Afghanistan, below 6000 feet, from May to July, making a rough nest of grass on a hill-side, and laying four eggs, which are brownish or greyish white marked with brown and purple, and measure about -85 by '63. 845. Anthus richardi. Richard's Pipit. Anthus richardi, Vieill. Noun. Diet. cPHist. Nat. xxvi, p. 491 (1818); Blyth, Cat. p. 135; Horsf. %â M. Cat. i, p. 355; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. X, p. 564. CorydaUa richardi (Vieill.), Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 231; Brooks, S. F. i, p. 358; Anders. Yunnan Exped., Aves, p. 606; Hume, Cat. no. 599; Ler/ffe, Birds Ceyl. p. 621; Oates, B. B. i, p. 166. The Large Marsh-Pipit, Jerd.; Pullapuraki, Meta hdlie, Fig. 85.âFoot of A. richardi. Coloration. Upper plumage fulvous-brown, the feathers centred with blackish, the rump more uniform
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