264 INSESSORES. ANTHUS. PIPIT. 



Food. ground with ease, feeding upon insects and worms. The 

 Lesser Crested Lark of ALDROVANDUS, and of succeeding 

 writers, appears to be but the present species ; and BEWICK'S 

 descriptions of the Field Lark, Tree Lark, and Grasshopper 

 Lark, in the first volume of his " British Birds,"" seem only 

 referable to the same individual. 



PLATE 49. Fig. 5. Natural size. 



General The whole of the upper parts of the plumage deep oil- 

 green ; the feathers upon the head, and those of the up- 

 per part of the back having their centres brownish-black. 

 Wing-coverts margined with yellowish- white, and form- 

 ing a double transverse bar across the wings. Chin and 

 throat white, passing into pale sienna-yellow upon the 

 sides of the breast. Upper parts of the breast having 

 oblong spots of brown. Sides and flanks spotted with 

 brown. Middle of the belly, and the under tail-coverts 

 greyish-white ; sometimes tinged with pale sienna-yellow. 

 Tail having the two middle feathers pointed, of a brown 

 colour, tinged with oil-green ; the exterior feather, with 

 the whole of the outer, and the greater part of the inner 

 web white, and with the tip of the second feather also 

 white. Legs and toes yellowish- brown. Hind claw 

 short and curved. 

 The female is similar to the male bird. 



RICHARD'S PIPIT. 



ANTHUS RICHARDI, Vieill. 

 PLATE C. FIG. 5. 



Anthus Richardi, Vieillot, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 1. 263. 

 Corydalla Richardi, Vigors in ZooL Jour. 2. 397. 

 Pepit Richard, Temm. Man. 2. 263. 



THE capture of two or three speciemens in the southern 

 parts of Britain, within the last few years, (and subsequent 



