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bird, one of which was taken alive in Copenhagen Fields, 
near London, which I believe is intended to refer to the 
example recorded by Mr. Vigors: the other was taken 
near Oxford. The British Museum also contains a British 
specimen, recently added to the collection, which is said to 
have been killed at Bermondsey ; and Mr. W. Proctor, the 
curator of the Durham University Museum, informs me 
that he shot a specimen of this bird on the 13th of February, 
1832, near Howick, on the Northumbrian coast, which is 
now in the collection of the Rev. Thomas Gisborne, of 
Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire. 
Since then four examples are recorded to have been 
killed in Cornwall; four in Devonshire; two in Kent, and 
three in Norfolk. 
The habits of this species, as far as the peculiarities of so 
rare a bird can be known,—for it is equally scarce on the 
Continent,—are said to be very similar to those of the other 
Pipits. It is mostly observed on the ground, where it 
stands very high, and runs with facility, waving the tail up 
and down with a gentle airy motion, like that observed in 
the Wagtails ; while its long hind claw, but slightly curved, 
connects it with the Larks. So scarce is this species in 
foreign collections, that M. Temminck appears to have seen 
but two specimens ; examples, however, have been obtained 
in Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Malta. This bird 
was named Ricardi in compliment to a very zealous amateur 
of ornithology, who first made known an example captured 
in Lorraine in autumn; the bird has also been taken in 
Picardy. M. Savi says, that three specimens only were 
known to him as having been obtained in Italy ; and this 
species probably inhabits the countries south of the Medi- 
terranean from whence stragglers occasionally visit the 
southern parts of Kurope. B. Hodgson Esq. has found it in 
