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on the breast and flanks, the feathers are indis- 

 tinctly but broadly marked with umber brown, 

 and produce a clouded rather than spotted 

 appearance to those parts. In the winter state, 

 the gray tint of the plumage disappears ; above 

 it becomes yellowish oil green, with little inter- 

 ruption from dark markings ; and underneath it 

 becomes wine yellow, clouded on the breast 

 with brown or deep oil green, and on the flanks 

 appearing almost entirely of those colours. The 

 length is about six and a half inches. 



RICHARD'S PIPIT ANTHUS RICHARDI. 

 Corydalla JRichardi, Vigors, ZooL Jour. This 

 species only claims the rank of a very rare 

 straggler, five or six specimens being all that 

 have been yet recorded as taken in Britain. 

 These have occurred chiefly in the south, and 

 there, in the vicinity of London, the most nor- 

 thern range mentioned being that of a single 

 specimen shot near Howick on the Northumbrian 

 coast. Its European range and its habits do not 

 seem to be well known ; it is still accounted very 

 rare, and it is probable that its real locality may 

 be still more to the south, and in those little ex- 

 plored regions which mark the European and 

 Asiatic boundary, and also in Northern Africa. 

 In an excursion made to Holland some years 

 since, we recollect having our notice attracted 

 by several specimens of this bird rising before us 

 on trie bare sandy patches, which occur among 

 the 10 w sand hills bordering the sea beach at 



