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166 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 
Genus CORYDALLA, Vig, 
' 158. COEYDALLA RICHARDI. 
RICHARD^S PIPIT. 
Anthus richardi, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. dHist. Nat. xxvi. p. 491 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. 
iii. p, 325, pi. Corydalla chinensis, Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 247 ; David et 
Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 311. Corydalla richardi, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 231 ; Brooks, 
S. F. i. p. 358 ; Hume, S. F. ii. p. 239 ; Bl. B. Burm. p. 95 ; Armstrong, 8. F. iv. 
p. 330 ; David et Oust. Ois. Clmie, p. 309 ; Anders. Yunnan Fxped. p. 606 ; Hume 
Sr Dav. S. F. vi. p. 365 ; Cripps, S. F. vii. p. 288 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 103 ; Sculli/, 
S.F. \m. p. 316 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 621. 
Description. — Male and female. Upper plumage^ scapulars and wing- 
coverts brown, each feather edged with fulvous ; primaries brown, narrowly, 
and the secondaries and tertiaries broadly, edged with fulvous ; tail with 
the outer pair of feathers nearly entirely white, the next pair with a large 
triangular patch of white on the inner web ; supercilium fulvous-white ; 
ear-coverts fulvous-brown ; chin and throat fulvous- white ; the remainder 
of the lower plumage pale fulvous, darker on the flanks, thighs and vent, 
and striated with brown on the breast ; axillaries fulvous. There is no 
difference in summer, except that the brown of the upper parts is darker. 
The fulvous on the lower plumage is very bright immediately after the 
moult. 
Bill brown, yellowish at the base of the lower mandible; mouth yellow ; 
iris brown; legs flesh- colour ; the claws darker. 
Length 7 to 8 inches, tail 3*4, wing 3*6 to 3*9, tarsus 1*2, hind claw '6 
to '7 , bill from gape "85. The female is of much the same size as the 
male. 
Richard^s Pipit is a winter visitor to Burmah. It is excessively common 
in all the vast plains in the south of Pegu ; but I do not recollect ever to 
have seen it in the northern portions near Prome and Thayetmyo. Capt. 
Wardlaw Ramsay procured it at Tonghoo and also in Karennee. Mr. 
Davison states that it is common throughout Tenasserim, and Capt. Bingham 
observed it in the Thoungyeen valley. 
Dr. Tiraut gives it from Cochin China, and Mr. Hume from various 
portions of the Malay peninsula, and it has also been got in Siam. In 
winter it occurs over the whole of China, the Indo-Burmese countries, and 
India, extending to Europe and Africa. In the summer it is found in 
Siberia and Central Asia and in some parts of Europe. 
This large Pipit arrives in Burmah in September and October, and does 
not leave until the commencement of April. It abounds in all rice- 
fields and ground covered with short grass. Although not gregarious, yet 
numerous birds are generally found together. It has a loud cry of alarm^ 
