Richard'* i
Anthus RichardU, VieQl. Npuy. Diet. d’Hist- Nat., tom. w» i.
Umyipes, Hollaudre, Faune de la Moselle, p. 84.
:■......— rupestris, M-£hetr. Catal., p. 37.
Ctnrydalla Ricfiardii, Vig. m Zool. Joum., vol. ii. p. 397.
-—— sinensis, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av\, tom. i p. 347. CS
T h e A n t h i or Pipits principally r e s id e in the Old -U
Europe they are abundank bpth in species and intHvw
they are not without a representative in Japan. H»
deportment; their ample wings enable them t s i y #
great facility; thei^claws, particularly the hinrin Oh
is never gay or brilliant, but usually assioMh****
and the sexes do not differ in their tints, and ■
largest, is certainly the most elegant in form *}
forth conspicuously as the chief of the Et&repM»
least-known, very little having been ascertained a|p
or in any part of the globe. Its visits to the {.'<&*&&
or to-morrow, and vears may roll round befom >'■
its eggs are desidefpia in the cabinets of all a&iv&i
Zoological Club orthO Lihnean Society a ;•
side of London. In the «prtttg of UiBlR fi
in the auttunn of 1S66 1 saw i s w
were birds of w vrv?. •«*«■
taken of the«. M
they were «r*i
bird oeruflMJJjuitV Wi
ttmc it is the rarest and the
cottomy, either in this country
certain. It may be here to-day
•places are unknown to as, and
exhibited to the Meeting of the
ic -;h the fields on the northern
lire near the Metropolis ; and
taken near Highgate. These
ich had been
arv of the Zu
» very partial to fields in wlöcb •
examined contained the remains
t* note, it resembles^btepk 11 -
i h e p c e p n t n o f t l w i«|»ec
ih rhosc couotw*. .Jfr
i Germany. In India and ( Kina it occurs mo
: and I suspect that we must there look for i
globe is its true home, and England the extreme
" this large Pipit occurs throughout the greater
to the end of April. It extends from Ncpaul a