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ANTHUS RICHARDI. RICHARD'S PIPIT. 



Aiitlms Ricardi. Richard's Pipit. Selb. Illustr. I. 264. 



Pipit Richard. Anthus Richardi. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 263. III. 185. 



Authus Ricardi. Richard's Pipit. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 1 17. 



Upper parts olitaceous-hrown spotted icith dark-hroicn ; lower 

 parts dull white, the fore part of the neck beneath and a portion of 

 the breast and sides tinged icith reddish-yellow and marked with 

 oblong dusky spots ; a line of similar spots from the base of the 

 bill ; tico outer tail-feathers ichite, loith a portion of the inner 

 web brown; tarsi long, hind claw much longer than the first joint 

 of the toe, and nearly straight. 



Male. — This species, of which only a very few specimens 

 have been met with in England, is about the size of Anthus 

 aquaticus, from which it is distinguished by its different 

 colours, as well as by its more elongated tarsi, and hind claws. 

 The bill is of moderate length, straight, rather stout, compressed 

 toward the end ; the head oblong ; the neck rather short ; the 

 body somewhat slender. The tarsi are rather long, compressed, 

 with eight anterior scutella ; the toes rather long, the hind toe 

 proportionally large ; its claw very long, slightly arched, much 

 compressed, tapering to a point ; the fore claws also little 

 arched. The plumage is soft and blended ; the wings rather 

 long, the outer quill longest, but the next two almost equal ; 

 the tail long, slightly emarginate and rounded. 



The bill is dark-brown above, brownish-yellow beneath ; 

 the iris black ; the feet and claws flesh-colour. The upper 

 parts are light yellowish-brown, each feather with the central 

 part dark-brown ; the quills and larger coverts are dark -brown, 

 margined with reddish -brown, the outer quill wnth white ; the 

 first row of small coverts with yellowish-white ; the tail- 

 feathers dark-brown, edged with pale jellowish-brown ; the 



