Richard's pipit. 13 



IXSESSORES. ANTHIDJE. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



PLATE XCIII 



RICHARD'S PIPIT. 

 Anthus Ricardi. 



In describing a bird so rare in England as the Pipit at 

 present under consideration, we must refer for its native 

 locality, habits, manners, and all other particulars, to the 

 works of continental authors, as containing nearly all that 

 can be brought forward on the subject. In the first part of 

 the Manuel of M. Temminck, that gentleman says, " It 

 appears that this Pipit is an inhabitant of the warmer coun- 

 tries of Europe, since it is found towards the Pyrenees, and, 

 probably, in Spain." In the third part of his Manuel, sub- 

 sequently published, Temminck confirms the supposition of 

 this species inhabiting Spain, and adds, that it inhabits also 

 the south of France and Germany, and has been killed in 

 Picardy in the month of October ; and that it is tolerably 

 common in Austria in the environs of Vienna. 



The whole extent of the south of Europe appears, there- 

 fore, to be inhabited, more or less abundantly, by this 

 species ; and, in addition to the localities above quoted, we 

 find mention made of this bird as an inhabitant of the island 

 of Crete in the Mediterranean. 



In this country, the Richard's Pipit can only be consi- 

 dered as a scarce straggler, of which, until lately, not more 

 than half a dozen specimens were recorded to have been cap- 



