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ANTHUS ARBOREUS. THE TREE PIPIT. 



MEADOW LARK. SHORT-HEELED FIELD LARK. 







Alauda trivialis. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 288. 



Alauda trivialis. Lath. Tnd. Orn. IL 493. 



Alauda minor. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 494. 



Field Lark. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Pipit des Buissons. Anthus arboreus. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 271. 



Tree Pipit. Anthus arboreus. Selb. Illustr. I. 262. 



Anthus arboreus. Tree Pipit. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 118. 



Upper parts olivaceous, spotted with dusky ; lower brownish- 

 white, anteriorlt/ tinned with reddish-yellotc ; the neck, sides, and 

 fore-part of the breast marked with ovato-oblong, brownish-black 

 spots ; the first quill longest ; the hind claw strongly arched, 

 shorter than the first joint. 



Male. — The Tree Pipit, which is of much less frequent oc- 

 currence in Britain than the Meadow Pipit, and does not re- 

 main there during winter, is so very similar to that species, as 

 to require a minute comparison with it, before one can readily 

 distinguish the two species. The differences are expressed in 

 the specific characters given above. 



