This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...brown or deep oil green, and on the flanks appearing almost entirely of those colours. The length is about six and a half inches. Richard's Pipit--Anthus Richardi Corydalla Richardi, Vigors, Zool. Jour.--This species only claims the rank of a very rare straggler, five or six specimens being all that have been ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...brown or deep oil green, and on the flanks appearing almost entirely of those colours. The length is about six and a half inches. Richard's Pipit--Anthus Richardi Corydalla Richardi, Vigors, Zool. Jour.--This species only claims the rank of a very rare straggler, five or six specimens being all that have been yet recorded as taken in Britain. These have occurred chiefly in the south, and there, in the vicinity of London, the most northern range mentioned being that of a single specimen shot near Howick on the Northumbrian coast. Its European range and its habits do not seem to be well known; it is still accounted very rare, and it is probable that its real locality may be still more to the south, and in those little explored regions which mark the European and Asiatic boundary, and also in Northern Africa. In an excursion made to Holland some years since, we recollect having our notice attracted by several specimens of this bird rising before us on the bare sandy patches, which occur among the low sand hills bordering the sea beach at Sclievelling near Leyden, and on looking at our memorandum taken down at the time, we find it recorded "as running very fast, and being rather shy." Mr Vigors has the merit of first making it known to our fauna, from a specimen which Whs taken alive in the vicinity of London in 1812. He afterwards proposed separating it from the Anthi, under the title of Corydalla. The crown and nape deep brown, margined with yellowish brown; the back and wings blackish brown, the feathers deeply edged with yellowish brown, and having altogether a tinge of oil green; middle feathers of the tail deep brown, the outer, and that next to it, having considerable proportions of white; a streak over the eyes and chin yellowish...
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