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RICHARD'S PIPIT. 



Anthus Ricardi, FLEMING. BEWICK. SELBY. 



Antlms Some small bird. Ricardi0 Richard. , 



Tins is a rare bird, a veritable 'rara avis,' even in Europe, 

 which is the only quarter of the globe in which it has hitherto 

 been discovered; its native home is probably, however, else- 

 where. A few specimens have been met with in Italy, Greece, 

 France, Germany, Spain, the island of Crete, and Austria, in 

 which last-named country it is the most frequent. 



In our own country one was taken alive near London, in 

 the month of October, 1812; two others occurred, also near 

 London, in the spring of 1836; and another has been procured 

 since; a fifth was taken near Oxford. One was shot near 

 Howick, in Northumberland, on the 13th. of February, 1832, 

 by Mr. W. Proctor, Curator of the Museum of the University 

 of Durham. Another, as recorded by William Richard Fisher, 

 Esq., of Yarmouth, was killed near there on the 22nd. of 

 November, 1841; another in the following April, and another 

 on the Denes, between that town and Caistor, by the same 

 person who had previously killed one, and who remarked its 

 peculiar appearance. Two were shot near Penzance, in Corn- 

 wall, and two near Marazion, in that county, and one near 

 Newcastle, in Northumberland. 



In addition to these, John Gatcombe, Esq., of Wyndham 

 Place, Plymouth, who has most obligingly furnished me with 

 a highly-finished coloured drawing of the bird, from which 

 the plate is taken, has written me word that, in the neigh- 

 bourhood of that town, one was shot by himself in the month 

 of November, 1842. He has also informed me that three 

 others were procured at the same time, and two more a few 

 years afterwards. 



