RICHARD'S PIPIT. 463 



occasionally visit the southern parts of Europe. B. Hodg- 

 son, Esq., has found it in Nepal ; and Mr. Blyth has 

 recorded its occurrence in the vicinity of Calcutta. 



The note of this bird is said to be very loud, and is heard 

 at a great distance ; its food consists of various insects ; and 

 its eggs, as noticed by M. Polydore Roux in his Ornitho- 

 logy of Provence, have a reddish ground colour, speckled 

 with darker red and light brown ; the length ten lines and 

 a half, by seven lines and a half in breadth. The egg, 

 rather larger than that of the Rock Pipit, is now figured 

 by Mr. Hewitson, plate 44, fig. 4. 



The figure of Richard's Pipit here given was taken, by 

 permission, from the bird originally obtained by Mr. Vigors, 

 which, with his whole collection, was some years since pre- 

 sented to the Zoological Society. 



The upper mandible of the beak is dark brown, the lower 

 mandible pale yellow brown ; the irides very dark brown, 

 almost black ; a light-coloured streak passes over the eyes 

 and ear-coverts, the latter are brown ; the feathers on the 

 top of the head, nape, back, wing, and upper tail-coverts, 

 are clove brown in the middle, with lighter yellowish brown 

 edges ; the margins of all the wing-coverts and tertials buffy 

 white ; quill-feathers dark brown ; the outer tail-feather on 

 each side is dull white, with an elongated patch of brown 

 at the base of the inner web ; the next feather on each side 

 is also in part dull white, but the brown colour on the 

 inner web extends over a larger surface ; the three next 

 feathers on each side are very dark brown ; the two middle 

 tail-feathers are shorter than the others, not so dark a 

 brown, and have light wood-brown coloured edges. 



The chin, throat, and all the under surface of the body, 

 dull white, tinged on the sides of the neck and on the 

 upper part of the breast with yellowish brown, and spotted 

 with dark brown; the flanks are also tinged with pale 



