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INTRODUCTION. 
Family ANTHID^. 
Pipits. 
We have here a group of birds which are more generally spread than the Wagtails, inasmuch as they are 
diffused over both divisions of the globe, but which are far less numerous in the older portion than the new. 
Like most other large groups they have been divided and subdivided into many genera ; those frequenting 
England I have retained under the old genus Anthus, and commence with one of the finest known species. 
136. Anthus Richardi Vol. III. PI. VIII. 
Richard’s Pipit. 
An accidental visitant to the British Islands, where it is generally seen in winter and spring. The other 
countries frequented by it are Continental Europe, India, China, and in fact the whole of the temperate 
regions of the Old World. 
137. Anthus campestris ........... Vol. III. PI, IX. 
Tawny Pipit. 
Common in the champagne parts of France and other portions of Central Europe. Has been killed 
in England, and may therefore be regarded as forming part of our avifauna ; but its visits must be 
considered purely accidental. 
138. Anthus obscurus ............ Vol, III. PI. X. 
Rock-Pipit. 
A stationary species, frequenting the shores and rocky parts of Britain — sparsely in Norfolk, but 
plentifully in Western Scotland and all the western Islands, including the Outer Hebrides, Monach Isles, 
Haskar Rocks, and St. Kilda — keeping strictly to the sea-margin (/?. Gray). 
139. Anthus spinoletta ........... Vol. III. PI. XI. 
Vinous Pipit. 
A bird of France and the southern and eastern parts of Europe. Although it has been killed on our 
coast many times, it must be considered an uncertain and accidental visitor. 
140. Anthus Ludovicianus. 
See the remarks respecting this species in my account of the Vinous Pipit {Anthus spinoletta). 
141. Anthus cervinus ........... Vol, III, PI. XII. 
Red-throated Pipit. 
Mr. Harting has recorded, in the ‘Field’ for the 26th of August, 1871, the occurrence of two examples 
