Anthus richardi Vieillot, Nouv. Dict. d'Hist. Nat. (1818), 26, 491;
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 564 (figure of foot);
Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1890), 2, 307, fig. 85 (foot);
McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 102.
Balabac (Everett). Central and eastern Asia and India; in winter
to southern China, Burmese countries, Ceylon, western and southern
Europe; occasional in the British Islands.
Adult.--"Upper plumage fulvous-brown, the feathers centered with
blackish, the rump more uniform; wings dark brown margined with
fulvous; tail dark brown with pale margins, the outermost feather
almost entirely white, the penultimate with an oblique portion of the
inner web, about an inch and a half [38 mm.] in length, also white;
supercilium and lower plumage pale fulvous, the sides of the throat
and fore neck and the whole breast streaked with dark brown; sides of
the body darker fulvous, with a few indistinct streaks. Bill brown,
yellowish at base of lower mandible; mouth yellow; iris brown, legs
flesh-color, the claws darker. Length, about 190; tail, 86; wing,
94; tarsus, 30; bill from gape, 22; hind claw, about 20." (Oates.)