. A history of British birds . 598PASSERES MOTACILLID/E. I. Anthus richardi, Vieillot *. rticnAiiDs ririT. Anthus Ricardi. This tine species was first made known as a visitor toEngland by Vigors, who at a meeting of the ZoologicalClub of the Linnean Society, 13th April, 1824+, 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 Febru

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. A history of British birds . 598PASSERES MOTACILLID/E. I. Anthus richardi, Vieillot *. rticnAiiDs ririT. Anthus Ricardi. This tine species was first made known as a visitor toEngland by Vigors, who at a meeting of the ZoologicalClub of the Linnean Society, 13th April, 1824+, 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. Met. dHist. Nat. Kd. 2, xxvi. p. 491 (1818). ■f In tin- course of that year he seems to have obtained a .second specimen[xrt Fleming, Br. Anim. p. 75) which lie also exhibited at a meeting of theLinnean Society, 2ml November, 1824, hut the paper then read, as now printedin the Societys Transactions (xiv. p. 556) does not allude to this species. A> Mr. Kippist, having kindly searched, reports that tl riginal manuscript does no

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