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RED-THROATED PIPIT. 



EED-BEEASTED PIPIT. 



AniJius — Some small bird. 



3Tontanus—Or, or appertaining to 

 mountains. 



I HATE much satisfaction in fi^ivinsr for the first time a 

 figure of this bird as a British one. Robert Gra}^, Esq., of 

 Southeroft, Govan, Glasgow, has written me word of its 

 occurrence in the neighbourhood of Dunbar: two specimens 

 were procured by himself, and one by a friend of his in a 

 garden there; two others were obtained in the neighbourhood 

 of Edinburgh, in May, 1S2-1; and two others, it is thought, 

 in the same year. W. F. W. Bird, Esq. has also rendered 

 very valuable assistance, by a careful and accurate translation 

 from Temminck, who, though he not only in his first volume, 

 but in his third, which is an appendix to the first, and also 

 in his fourtii, had treated two species as one, yet, in the 

 second part of the fourth volume, published in 18^0, having 

 fully satisfied himself that they were really distinct, described 



