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TAWNY PIPIT. 



Anthus campestris. 



This Pipit was first noticed as Britisli hy Mr. Rowley^ and 

 is a rare straggler to this county^ where, curiously enough, 

 almost all the recorded specimens have been met with in the 

 neighbourhood of Brighton. The first was taken at Shore- 

 ham Harbour on the 15th of August, 1858, and was in the 

 collection of the late Mr. Collins, of Aldmouth, until 1862, 

 when another Pipit having been shot at Eottingdean on the 

 34th of September, Mr. Rowley, on careful examination of 

 it in the flesh, discovered that both this and the former were 

 Anthus campestris, and records them in the ' Ibis ' for 1863. 

 I have in my own collection three specimens, all taien near 

 Brighton. Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun., tells me that his father 

 had one which was shot at Rottingdean October 3rd, 1886, 

 in very immature plumage. 



Referring to the ' Zoologist,^ we find (p. 9337) a male 

 taken in a clap-net near Brighton, September 30th, 1864, 

 which was seen alive by Mr. Rowley, and passed into the 

 collection of Mr. Monk. At p. 1918, s. s., two more are 

 mentioned by Mr. Wonfor as shot at Rottingdean, Septem- 

 ber 6th, 1869. Another immature bird is mentioned by Mr. 

 Rowley, obtained near Rottingdean September 39th, 1870 

 (p. 2383), also in the possession of Mr. Monk. And in 

 October 1873 again another male example was killed near 

 Brighton (p. 3833), which was purchased by Sir John Crewe. 

 At p. 4456, s. s., Mr. Clark Kennedy mentions that one was 

 caught in a clap-net at Eastbourne, November 8th, 1874 ; and 

 at p. 4694, s. s., Mr/Swaysland records the purchase of a 

 young male, taken in the same way, at the east end of 

 Brighton. At p. 399, volume for 1877, Mr. Bond states 



