200 BBITISII BIRDS' NESTS. 



bank or stone. I ^Yas sliown one in a liole several 

 inches deep in a bank from which the earth had 

 all slipped away last summer. The bird nests 

 commonly throughout the British Isles, but most 

 numerously in pasture land and moorland districts. 

 Our illustration was procured on the Westmoreland 

 hills. 



Materials. — Bents, bits of fine dead grass and 

 horsehair. 



Eggs. — Four to six, generally five ; French grey, 

 sometimes tinged with pale bluish-green, thickly 

 covered with light or dusky brown. The markings 

 are generally so thickly distributed as to hide the 

 ground-colour ; indeed, I have met with specimens 

 where none of it could be seen. Occasionally eggs 

 may be found marked with hair-lines of dusky 

 black at the larger end. Size about '8 by '58 in. 

 Distinguished by small size and brown appearance. 



Time. — x\pril, May, June, and occasionally as 

 late as July. 



Beniai-lis. — Migratory and resident, the latter 

 being subject to local movement. Notes : song, 

 short, soft, and musical ; alarm notes, trit, trit ; 

 call, zeeaJi, zeeali, zeeali. Local and other names : 

 Titlmg, Moor Tite, Titlark, Ling Bird, Teetick, 

 Moss Cheeper, Wekeen, Pipit Lark, Heather Lintie, 

 Moor Titling, Moor Tit, Meadow Lark. Sits closely, 

 and hovers round, uttering its note, t)if, trit. 



PIPIT, ROCK. 



Description of Parent Birds. — Length about six 

 and three quarter inches. Bill medium, nearly 

 straight, slender, and dark brown, except at the 

 base, where it is dull orange. Irides dark brown. 



