Their Eggs and Nests. loi 



the place at wliich they have alighted. Its nest is 

 always on the ground, sometimes in the middle of a 

 grass or corn Held, sometimes nearer the hedge, but 

 always so placed as to be very well if not very closely 

 concealed. One I found accidentally on the moor was 

 in the side of a cavity left by the extraction of a huge 

 surface block of stone, in a kind of small hollow or 

 recess, and completely covered in by earth and ling. 

 In addition to its five proper eggs, this nest contained 

 a Cuckoo's Qgg. The nest is made of bents, lined 

 with the same and some hairs. The eggs are from 

 four to six, and vary in colour, Mr. Yarrell's descrip- 

 tion is, " Of a reddish-brown colour, mottled over with 

 darker brown." The red is hardly discoverable, if at 

 all, in some I have, and I should have said " dusky 

 brown."— /'/V 1\, plate III. 



WATER Y\V\T—{Anthus spipoletta). 



" A very rare straggler in Great Britain." (" Ibis " 

 List.) 



ROCK VlYVY—iAntJms ohscnms ; formerly, 

 A. petros2(s). 

 Dusky Lark, Rock Lark, Field Lark, Sea Titling, 

 Sea Lintie. This bird, it seems, was long confounded 

 with the others named a little above. It is seldom 

 met far inland, and is not always found near rocks, 

 notwithstanding its name. It is a ground-builder, 

 and where there are rocks handy, the nest is very 

 likely to be on their ledges, if only a little grass or 

 the like grows there. It is composed of various dry 



