RED-THROATED PIPIT.
R E D - B R E A S T E D P I P I T.
Ant'hits cetvinus, PALLAS.
BREHM.
KOCK.
BUONAPARTE. LICHTENSTEIN.
AUDUBON.
BUONAPARTE.
WILSON.
LATHAM. GMELIN.
rufogu laris,
montanus,
L udovicianus,
" spinoletta,
Alauda rufa,
" rubra,
Anthus—Some small bird. Montanus—Of, or appertaining- t o mountains.
I HAVE much, s a t i s f a c t i o n in g i v i n g for t h e first t i m e , a figure of
t h i s b i r d as a B r i t i s h one. R o b e r t G r a y , E s q . , o f S o u t h c r o f t , G o v a n,
G l a s g ow . has w r i t t e n me w o r d of i t s o c c u r r e n c e i n t h e n e i g h b o u r h o o d
of D u n b a r ; two s p e c i m e n s w e r e p r o c u r e d b y himself, a n d o n e b y a
f r i e n d of h i s i n a g a r d e n t h e r e ; two o t h e r s were o b t a i n e d in t h e
n e i g h b o u r h o o d of E d i n b u r g h , in M a y , 1824; a n d t w o o t h e r s , it is
t h o u g h t , in t h e s a m e y e a r . \\ . P . \ \ . B i r d , E s q . , h a s a l s o r e n d e r ed
v e r y v a l u a b l e a s s i s t a n c e , b y a careful and a c c u r a t e t r a n s l a t i o n from
T e m m i n c t , w h o , t h o u g h he n o t o n l y in h i s first v o l u m e , b u t i n h i s
t h i r d , w h i c h is an a p p e n d i x to t h e first, a n d a l s o i n h i s f o u r t h , h a d
t r e a t e d two s p e c i e s as o n e , y e t i n t h e s e c o n d p a r t of t h e f o u r th
v o l u m e , p u b l i s h e d in 1840, h a v i n g fully satisfied himself t h a t they
were1 r e a l l y d i s t i n c t , d e s c r i b e d t h e m a c c o r d i n g l y . Mr. M a e g i l i i v r ay
h a s g i v e n a useful account of it i n h i s ' M a n u a l of B r i t i s h O r n i t h o l
o g y . ' t h e first r e c o r d , that I a m a w a r e of, of t h i s b i r d as a B r i t i sh
o n e .
T h i s species i n h a b i t s p r i n c i p a l l y t h e s o u t h a n d cast of E u r o p e.
I t is also f o u n d in t h e A m e r i c a n a n d A s i a t i c C o n t i n e n t s ; a n d l i k e w
i s e in J a p a n.
T h e h a b i t s of t h e R e d - t h r o a t e d P i p i t a r e m y o t h e r i n e , t h a t is, a l l i ed