. A history of British birds . 4 F 586 PASSERES. MOTACILLITJ^ Anthus obscurus (Latham*). THE ROCK-PIPIT. Anthus j)etroms\. The Rock-Pipit, in some of its habits, its flight and song,so much resembles the two commoner species of this countrythat it was for a long time confounded with them. Pennantin the first edition of his British Zoology, published in 1766,figured (pi. P 1. fig. 3) a bird, shot on the rocks of theCaernarvonshire coast, which was doubtless of this species,but he did not distinguish it from the ordinary Titlark, andWalcott in 1789 (Synops. Br. Birds, ii. p. 192
. A history of British birds . 4 F 586 PASSERES. MOTACILLITJ^ Anthus obscurus (Latham*). THE ROCK-PIPIT. Anthus j)etroms\. The Rock-Pipit, in some of its habits, its flight and song,so much resembles the two commoner species of this countrythat it was for a long time confounded with them. Pennantin the first edition of his British Zoology, published in 1766,figured (pi. P 1. fig. 3) a bird, shot on the rocks of theCaernarvonshire coast, which was doubtless of this species,but he did not distinguish it from the ordinary Titlark, andWalcott in 1789 (Synops. Br. Birds, ii. p. 192) seems to havebeen its original describer+. He called it the Sea-Lark, andrightly enough said it was found on the coast of Devon all * Alaiula ohscura, Latham, Imlex Ornithologicus, ii. p. 494 (1790).t Alauda j>ctrom, Montagu, Trans. Linn. Soc. iv. p. 41 (1798),Z There is, however, no little confusion on this point, and the precise sharewhich Walcott, Latham, Lewin and Montagu took in the discovery, can hardlyat this distance of time be apportioned, for some of their ac
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