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PASSERES. 



MOTACILLIDyE. 



MOTACILLID.E. 



Anthus campestris (Linnfeus*). 



TAWNY PIPIT. 



The bird above represented is so common in many 

 countries of Europe and even in some of those which 

 confront our shores that it is rather a matter of wonder the 

 species should have remained for so long a time unre- 

 cognized as an occasional visitor to this island — the more so 

 because since its occurrence here was noted several examples 

 have been recorded as obtained in England. To Mr. Rowley 

 is due the credit of making known this addition to our 

 casual Fauna. In 'The Ibis' for 1863 (pp. 37-39) he 

 stated that an example was shot near Shoreham Harbour, 

 on the 17th August, 1858, which being mistaken for a 

 Richard's Pipit, the bird next to be described, passed into 

 the collection of Mr. Henry Collins of Aldsworth, and there 

 remained as such until Mr. Rowley's attention being espe- 

 cially drawn to a Pipit, shot near Rottingdean on the 24th 



* Alavda campestris, Linnseus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. i>. 2SS (1766). 



