32 A HAND-LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



EREMOPHILA ALPESTRIS* 



64. Eremophila alpestris flava (Gm.)— THE SHORE-LARK. 



Alauda flava Gmeliii, Syst. Nat., i, 2, p. 800 (1789 — Typical locality : 



Siberia). 



Otocorys alpestris (Linnspus), Yarrell, i, p. G04 ; Saunders, p. 259. 



Distribution. — England. — Winter- visitor (Nov. -March and April). 

 First noticed Norfolk March, 1830. Was irregular winter- visitor 

 to east and south coasts until 1879, when considerable visitation 

 occurred, and subsequently has increased and is now annual autumn 

 to spring visitor east coast from Yorks. to Kent. Along south 

 coast occasional ; elsewhere very rare. Wales. — Very rare vagrant. 

 Scotland. — First recorded East Lothian Jan., 1859, subsequently 

 rarely, as far north as Fife ; of recent years annually small numbers 

 autumn and occasionally spring Fair Isle, and a few in autumns 

 1907 and 1909, Isle of May. Unkno^vii in west. Ireland. — One 

 Wicklow Head, Nov. 4, 1910 (R. M. Barrington, Brit. B., iv, p. 215. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — ^North Europe, chiefly north of Arctic 

 Circle, and north Asia. Represented in America by a number of 

 allied forms. (Hartert treats all the Horned Larks as forms of 

 E. alpestris.) 



ANTHUS RICHARDI 



65. Anthus richardi richardi Vieill.— RICHARD'S PIPIT. 



Anthus Richardi Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Xat., nouv. ed., xxvi, 



p. 491 (1818— France). 



Anthus richardi Vieillot, Yarrell, i, p. 598 ; Saunders, p. 139. 



Distribution. — British Isles. — Vagrant. Over seventy recorded 

 in various parts England, but chiefly in south coast counties and 

 Norfolk. In Scotland, single birds Perth and Kirkcudbright ; 

 several autumn 1908, one autumn 1909, and two Oct. 6, 1911, 

 Fair Isle. In Ireland, one Lucan (Dublin) Nov. 21, 1907, one Howth 

 (Dublin) Oct. 23, 1911. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — North Asia. Migrant wintering in tro- 

 pical India and south China, and frequently visiting Europe, 

 even west Europe, and Mediterranean countries. An allied race 

 breeds in south MongoUa and China. 



* The name alpestris originally refers to a north American form, which, 

 though very close to the one of the Old World, is separable. — E.H. 



