New Zealand Pipit

The New Zealand pipit, or pīhoihoi, is a slender open-country passerine of New Zealand and its outlying islands. It is one of more than forty species in Anthus. Older classifications grouped it with Richard's, African, mountain and paddyfield pipits, while many modern authors separate the Australian pipit as A. australis. This history matters for interpreting extralimital records bearing the broad older name Anthus novaeseelandiae (Wikipedia, general species account).

Johann Friedrich Gmelin formally described the species in 1789 as Alauda novaeseelandiae, based on John Latham's earlier account and a Georg Forster painting of a specimen from Queen Charlotte Sound. That painting is the holotype in London's Natural History Museum. The opened account recognizes four subspecies within New Zealand and its islands. Because this native range does not include Korea, the Korean catalogue occurrence should be verified against modern pipit taxonomy and a documented specimen (Wikipedia, general species account).