Basilan (Steere, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Bohol (McGregor); Cagayancillo (McGregor); Calayan (McGregor); Cebu (McGregor); Guimaras (Steere Exp.); Leyte (Steere Exp.); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Othberg, Heriot, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Maestre de Campo (McGregor & Worcester); Masbate (Bourns & Worcester); Mindanao (Goodfellow, Celestino); Mindoro (McGregor); Negros (Whitehead); Palawan (Whitehead, Platen, Bourns & Worcester); Polillo (McGregor); Romblon (Bourns & Worcester); Sibuyan (Bourns & Worcester); Siquijor (Celestino); Sulu (Bourns & Worcester); Tawi Tawi (Bourns & Worcester). Siberia, Kamtchatka, Commander Islands, Celebes; in winter to Borneo and the Molucca Islands; China during migration.

Adult.—Top of head, neck, and back tawny buff, each feather with a wide mesial streak of blackish brown; on each side of mantle a series of feathers each having either the inner or outer web buffy white, forming on each side a conspicuous, but not well-defined, whitish stripe; rump and tail-coverts darker than back, near raw-umber, with narrower blackish shaft-streaks; supercilium light buff, but not forming a well-defined line; ear-coverts tawny; malar stripe buff, bounded below by a narrow blackish line; under parts white with a wash of buff across the chest and with bold blackish streaks on breast, sides, and flanks; wing-feathers blackish brown, edged with dark buff; median and greater coverts tipped with white, forming two wing-bars; rectrices blackish brown, the two outer pairs with considerable white on the inner webs. A male from Calayan Island measures: Wing, 85; tail, 56; culmen from base, 16; tarsus, 22; hind toe with claw, 20. A female from northern Mindanao, wing, 80; tail, 56; culmen from base, 15; tarsus, 22; hind toe with claw, 20.

Young birds differ from the adults in having the chin and throat spotted with blackish brown.

The diagnostic characters of Anthus gustavi are the heavy streaks on breast and sides, and the whitish streaks on the sides of the back.

The Petchora pipit is usually found skulking on the ground in forest; it is never seen in flocks.

688. ANTHUS CERVINUS (Pallas).
RED-THROATED PIPIT.

Calayan (McGregor); Luzon (Whitehead); Mindanao (Steere Exp.); Palawan (Everett, Celestino); Alaska, Kurile Islands, Asia, Europe, England; in winter to China and Indo-Burmese countries, Persia and northwestern India, Formosa, Hainan, and northern Africa, accidental in Lower California.