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Richard’s pipit (Anthus richardi) is an annual vagrant to Europe from its eastern Palaearctic breeding grounds. It was first described in 1818 by Louis Vieillot from specimens obtained in eastern France and named for Richard de Lune ́ville. Although Richard was then a fairly well known natural history collector his identity became lost to succeeding generations of naturalists. He is identified here as Charles Richard (1745–1835), the director of the postal service at Lunéville. Some of his bird specimens still survive amongst the Baillon Collection at La Châtre but other birds, including the three syntypes of Richard’s pipit, have not been traced.

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This page is a summary of: The identity of Richard of Richard's pipit (Anthus richardi Vieillot, 1818), Archives of Natural History, April 2015, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/anh.2015.0281.
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