ROCK-PIPIT. 



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gone-by as to a so-called "Eed Lark"— the Alaiida rubra of 

 older writers — said to occur in this country, while several 

 British authors, even the accurate Macgillivray among the 

 number, have confounded them with the North-American 

 Pipit, AntJiKS liidoviclanus — a species not as yet proved to 

 have been observed in Britain. More recently other English 

 ornithologists have seen in them examples of the European 

 A. siripolctta, just described. From either of the species last 



mentioned A. rupcstr'is, as here figured, can be readily distin- 

 guished by having the patches at the end of its outer tail- 

 feathers not white but of a pale greyish-brown, just as in our 

 own Rock-Pipit, which indeed it otherwise so nearly resem- 

 bles that the warmer colouring of the lower parts is the sole 

 indication of difference that can be relied upon, and this 

 variation of tint seems to the Editor insufficient to establish 

 any distinction worthy of being accounted specific. 



Examples of this Scandinavian form seem to have been 

 met with in various parts of the country : — by Edwards, 

 many years ago, near London ; by Macgillivray, in 1824, 



