144 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS. 



When staying at Antwerp in May, 1870, I 

 saw three or four specimens which had been 

 taken in that neighbourhood, but the owner of 

 them considered the bird a rarity there. Mr. 

 Howard Saunders obtained a couple near 

 Malaga in the month of February, and learnt 

 that in some winters it is not uncommon in 

 soxithern Spain ("Ibis," 1870, p. 216). Signor 

 Bettoni, in his grand work on the birds which 

 breed in Lombardy, mentions Richard's Pipit 

 as one of the characteristic species of the 

 Lombard plains. " Nevertheless," says Mr. 

 Saunders ("Ibis," 1869, p. 392), "he must not 

 be understood to mean that it is in any way 

 abundant, or even constant in that province ; 

 for the Count Turati assured me that it has 

 never been discovered breeding there, and that, 

 judging from the number of specimens enume- 

 rated aS obtained in England, it is more common 

 with us than with them. That its appearance 

 is confined to the plains of Lombardy is probably 

 the author's meaning." In Malta it is only 

 found accidentally in spring and autumn, and 



