. A history of British birds . 598 PASSERES. :. Anthus richardi, Vieillot*.RICHARDS PIPIT. Anthus rdcardi. This fine species was first made known as a visitor toEngland by Vigors, who at a meeting of the ZoologicalClub of the Linnean Society, 13th April, 18241, exhibited aspecimen that was netted alive in the fields to the northof London in October, 1812 (Zool. Journ. i. p. 280).Rennie, in his edition of Montagus Ornithological Dic-tionary, published in 1831, noticed another taken at Oxford ;and Mr. Proctor, of Durham, informed me that he shota specimen, 13th Februar
. A history of British birds . 598 PASSERES. :. Anthus richardi, Vieillot*.RICHARDS PIPIT. Anthus rdcardi. This fine species was first made known as a visitor toEngland by Vigors, who at a meeting of the ZoologicalClub of the Linnean Society, 13th April, 18241, exhibited aspecimen that was netted alive in the fields to the northof London in October, 1812 (Zool. Journ. i. p. 280).Rennie, in his edition of Montagus Ornithological Dic-tionary, published in 1831, noticed another taken at Oxford ;and Mr. Proctor, of Durham, informed me that he shota specimen, 13th February, 1832, near Howick, on the * Nouv. Diet. dHist. Nat. Ed. 2, xxvi. p. 491 (1818). t In the course of that year he seems to have obtained a second specimen{sec Fleming, Br. Anim. p. 75) which he also exhibited at a meeting of theLinnean Society, 2nd November, 1824, but the paper then read, as now printedin the Societys Transactions (xiv. p. 556) does not allude to this Mr. Kippist, having kindly searched, reports that the original manuscriptdoes not exist in
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