ANTHUS RICHARDI 
(RICHARD’S PIPIT.) 
Anthus richardi, Vieill. Nouv. Dict. xxvi. p. 491 (1818). 
Corydalla richardi (Vieill.), Vigors, Zool. Journ. i. p. 411 (1825). 
Anthus rupestris, Ménét. Cat. Raisonn. p. 37 (1832, nec Nilss.). 
Anthus macronyx, Gloger, Handl. Vog. Eur. 1. p. 269 (1834). 
Anthus longipes, Holandre, Faune de la Moselle, p. 84 (1836). 
Cichlops monticolus, Hodgs. in Gray’s Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844). 
Corydalla sinensis, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 247 (1850). 
Corydalla orientalis, L. Brehm, Naumannia, 1856, p. 463. 
Corydalla russelti, L. Brehm, loc. cit. 
Agrodromas richardi (Vieill.), Saunders, Ibis, 1871, p. 216. 
Corydalla chinensis, Bp., Swinhoe, P. Z. 8. 1871, p. 366. 
Stelzenpieper, Spornpieper, German; Pipit Richard, French; Bilblun selvag, Maltese. 
Figure notabiles. 
Temm. PI. Col. 101; Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, pl. 83; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. pl. 371. 
figs. 3,4; Gould, B. of Eur. pl. 135; id. B. of G. B. iii. pl. 8; Roux, Orn. Prov. pls. 189, 190; 
Bouteille, Orn. du Dauph. pl. 28. fig. 1; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pl. 98. 
g ad. corpore supra saturaté fusco plumis omnibus medialiter nigricantibus: uropygio et supracaudalibus 
sordidioribus, fuscescentibus, unicoloribus: remigibus nigricantibus, primariis in pogonio externo vix 
cervino marginatis, secundariis conspicué rufescente marginatis : tectricibus alarum majoribus albicante 
apicatis, minoribus nigricantibus rufuscente marginatis et apicatis: rectrice externa alba, pogonio interno 
in dimidio basali centraliter strié grisea: rectrice secunda nigricante, in pogonio externo versus apicem 
alba et in pogonio interno albo notata, reliquis nigricantibus, centralibus rufescente marginatis: ad 
basin rostri supra oculum stria albid&: facie laterali ochrascenti-brunnea fulvido notata: corpore 
subtus albido ochraceo lavato: gutture, pectore et hypochondriis vix rufescente adumbratis : mento 
albo: gutture lateraliter et pectore nigricante maculatis: rostro et iride fuscis: pedibus pallidé 
brunneis. 
2 haud a mare distinguenda. 
Juv. adulto similis, sed corpore supra pallidiore, tectricibus alarum et secundariis intimis conspicué albo 
marginatis. 
Adult Male (near Antwerp, autumn of 1870). Upper parts dark dull reddish brown, each feather with a 
blackish brown centre; rump and upper tail-coverts duller and more uniform brown in colour; quills 
blackish brown, primaries narrowly margined on the outer web with pale buff, secondaries more broadly 
edged with rufous, especially the elongated inner ones; larger wing-coverts tipped with whitish, median 
On 
