258 INSESSORES. ANTHUS. PIPIT. 



ROCK, OR SHORE PIPIT. 



ANTHUS AQUATICUS, Bechst. 

 PLATE XLIX. FIG. 6. 



Anthus aquaticus, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 745. 



Anthus rupestris, Nils. Orn. Suec. v. 1. p. 245. sp. 115. 



Alauda campestris spinoletta, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 79. sp. 4. var. B. Lath. 



Ind. Ornith. v. 2. p. 495. sp. 12. var. B. 

 Alauda petrosa, Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 4. p. 41. 

 Alauda obscura, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 801. sp. 33. _ Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. 



p. 494. sp. 7- 



Pipit Spioncelle, Temm. Man d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 265. 

 Wasser Pieper, Meyer., Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 258. 

 Dusky Lark, Lewirfs Br. Birds, 3. t. 94 Don. Br. Birds, 4. t. 76. 

 Rock Lark, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 

 Sea Lark, Wale. Syn. t. 193. 

 Field or Rock Lark, BewicWs Sup. to Br. Birds, p. t. 26. 



THIS species appears to have remained long either unno- 

 ticed, or confounded with others, by the earlier ornitholo- 

 gists. Mr LEWIN, in his work on British Birds, first gave a 

 figure and description of it, by the name of the Dusky Lark, 

 which was adopted by him at the suggestion of MONTAGU, 

 who seems to have been the first observer of its distinctive 

 characters, amongst a number of Larks and Pipits sent to 

 him by Dr LATHAM. It afterwards appeared in the " Index 

 Ornithologicus," under the title of Alauda obscura; and 

 MONTAGU gave an accurate description and history of it, in 

 the Linnean Transactions, as well as in the Ornithological 

 Dictionary, under the head of Roc k Lark. Its peculiar lo- 

 calities contributed doubtless to its remaining so long unno- 

 ticed, for it is strictly confined to the rocky and abrupt 

 shores of our island. In these situations it is not rare, as I 

 have found it along the whole extent of the Northumbrian 

 coast and the eastern shores of Scotland ; and MONTAGU met 

 with it abundantly in Wales, and on the southern shores of 

 England. In its manners it resembles the Common Pipit ; 

 and their call-note and song are also similar to each other. 



