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Richard's pipit. 
on the breast and flanks, the feathers are indis- 
tinctly but broadly marked with umber brown, 
and produce a clouded rather than spotted 
appearance to those parts. In the winter state, 
the gray tint of the plumage disappears ; above 
it becomes yellowish oil green, with little inter- 
ruption from dark markings; and underneath it 
becomes wine yellow, clouded on the breast 
with brown or deep oil green, and on the flanks 
appearing almost entirely of those colours. The 
length is about six and a half inches. 
Richard’s Pipit — Anthus richardi 
Corydalla Richardi, Vigors , Zool. Jour. — This 
species only claims the rank of a very rare 
straggler, five or six specimens being all that 
have been yet recorded as taken in Britain. 
These have occurred chiefly in the south, and 
there, in the vicinity of London, the most nor- 
thern range mentioned being that of a single 
specimen shot near Howick on the Northumbrian 
coast. Its European range and its habits do not 
seem to be well known ; it is still accounted very 
rare, and it is probable that its real locality may 
be still more to the south, and in those little ex- 
plored regions which mark the European and 
Asiatic boundary, and also in Northern Africa. 
In an excursion made to Holland some years 
since, we recollect having our notice attracted 
by several specimens of this bird rising before us 
on the bare sandy patches, which occur among 
the low sand hills bordering the sea beach at 
