RICHARD’S  PIPIY. 
Anthus Ricardi, FLemine. Brwick. SELBY. 
Anthus—Some small bird. Ricardi—Of Richard. 
THs is a rare bird, a veritable ‘rara avis,’ even in Europe, 
which is the only quarter of the globe in which it has hitherto 
been discovered; its native home is probably, however, else- 
where. A few specimens have been met with in Italy, Greece, 
France, Germany, Spain, the island of Crete, and Austria, in 
which last-named country it is the most frequent. 
In our own country one was taken alive near London, in 
the month of October, 1812; two others occurred, also near 
London, in the spring of 18836; and another has been procured 
since; a fifth was taken near Oxford. One was shot near 
Howick, in Northumberland, on the 18th. of February, 18382, 
by Mr. W. Proctor, Curator of the Museum of the Univ ersity 
of Durham. hn as recorded by William Richard Fisher, 
Esq., of Yarmouth, was killed near there on the 22nd. of 
November, 1841; another in the following April, and another 
on the Denes, between that town and Caistor, by the same 
person who had previously killed one, and who remarked its 
peculiar appearance. ‘Two were shot near Penzance, in Corn- 
vall, and two near Marazion, in that county, and one near 
Newcastle, in Northumberland. 
In alate to these, John Gatcombe, Esq., of Wyndham 
Place, Plymouth, who has most obliginely furnished me with 
a highly-finished coloured drawing of the bird, from which 
the plate is taken, has written me word that, in the neigh- 
bourhood of that town, one was shot by himself in the month 
of November, 1842. He has also informed me that three 
others were procured at the same time, and two more a few 
years afterwards. 
