Am a long way from my birdbooks and notes, but aren't there more differences
between nominate and _japonicus_ American Pipits than just the leg color?
Surely one would want a complete and detailed description to support the id,
even if pink legs were a sign one ought to look more carefully at a given
pipit.
Sherman Suter
Paleobiology NHB-121 / Smithsonian Institution / DC 20560
email still thru echino at uchicago.edu