BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



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^ree pipit 



The Tree Pipit [Aiithus trivialis^ Einnreus) is a summer 

 visitor to the British Islands, but it is comparatively rare in 

 Scotland, and is exceedingly scarce in Ireland. It visits 

 Central and Northern Europe and Asia during summer, 

 spending the winter in Africa, Persia, and India. The 

 adult in summer has the upper parts dark brown, margined 

 broadly with buffish-brown; wings and most of tail-feathers, 

 dark brown, edged with paler brown; about one-half of the 

 outer pair of rectrices, white; chin, whitish; throat, Ijuff; 

 beneath, pale buff; abdomen, white; sides of throat, chest, 

 and flanks, spotted and streaked with dark brown: irides, 

 dark brown; legs and feet, pale brown. Length, about six 

 inches. The female is similar to the male, but the streaks 

 on the under parts are narrower. This species is readily dis- 

 tinguished from Anthus pfiitensis by its shorter and much 

 curved hind claw. 



