EOCK PIPIT 117 



a bird-catcher near Dover, but in pulling the net over, 

 one of the rods struck and killed the bird." There are 

 three specimens in the Canterbury Museum, all labelled 

 Dover, without any further details. 



EOCK-PIPIT. 



Antlius ohscurus (Latham). Ind. Orn., ii., p. 494 



(1790). 



Shore Lark, Dusky Lark. 



In the fourth edition of Yarrell's British Birds Pro- 

 fessor Newton says : " Latham had priority in publishing 

 a scientific name for this species. He says he saw it first 

 in the Leman Collection, but the example he describes 

 was obtained from Lewin, who found it in the Kentish 

 marshes and himself figured the species as the Dusky 

 Lark in the following year (1791)." 



The Kev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, in his Ornithology of 

 Kent, 1844, calls this bird the Shore Lark {Anthus 

 aquaticus), and states that it is " not common." 



Among the Birds Observed at Bainham, by Mr. W. 

 H. Power, he includes the Rock-Pipit, which he says 

 " appeared this season on October 7, 1865. It is a con- 

 stant winter visitant, and although inferior in numbers 

 to the Meadow Pipit, is yet tolerably common." And 

 Mr. F. D. Power adds : " September 24, 1868 : One seen. 

 Numerous on the saltings by October 2. A common 

 species here in winter." This is also confirmed by Mr. 

 W. Prentis in his Birds of Bainham, 1894. 



