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PASSERES. 



motacillid.t:. 



MOTACILLID.E. 



Anthus richardi, Vieillot*. 

 RICHARD'S PIPIT. 



Anthus rdcardi. 



This fine species was first made known as a visitor to 

 England by Vigors, who at a meeting of the Zoological 

 Club of the Linnean Society, 13th April, 1824 1, exhibited a 

 specimen that was netted alive in the fields to the north 

 of London in October, 1812 (Zool. Journ. i. p. 280). 

 Rennie, in his edition of Montagu's ' Ornithological Dic- 

 tionary,' published in 1831, noticed another taken at Oxford ; 

 and Mr. Proctor, of Durham, informed me that he shot 

 a specimen, 13th February, 1832, near Howick, on the 



* Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. Ed. 2, xxvi. p. 491 (1818). 



t In the course of that year he seems to have obtained a second specimen 

 {sec Fleming, Br. Anim. p. 75) which he also exhibited at a meeting of the 

 Linnean Society, 2nd November, 1824, but the paper then read, as now printed 

 in the Society's ' Transactions ' (xiv. p. 556) does not allude to this species. 

 As Mr. Kippist, having kindly searched, reports that the original manuscript 

 does not exist in the Society's archives, the point is scarcely to be settled. 



