fNSESSOHES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



RICHARD'S PIPIT. 



461 



ANTHID^. 





RICHARD'S PIPIT. 



Antlius Ricardi. 



Anthus Ricardi, Ricliards Pipit, 



Pipit Richard, 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 219. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 75. 



SELBT, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 264. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 117. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 263. 



THIS fine species was first made known as an occasional 

 visitor to England by the late N. A. Vigors, Esq., M.P., 

 who obtained a specimen that was taken alive in the 

 neighbourhood of London in October, 1812. Mr. Gould, in 

 his Birds of Europe, mentions two instances that occurred 

 of the capture of this species, also near London, in the 

 spring of 1836. Mr. Rennie, in his edition of Montagu's 

 Ornithological Dictionary, notices two instances of this 



