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note, too, is much more like that of tlie former than that of the 

 latter species ; while its eggs also in a high degree resemble some 

 of those of the Tree Pipit, but have nothing in common with 

 those of the Meadow Pipit. It is distinguished, however, from both 

 these species by the almost black broad central marking of the 

 largest pair of the under tail-coverts, which in the other species 

 in question are of a uniform whitish rust-colour. The breeding 

 range of this Pipit extends from Finmark to Kamtschatka ; Von 

 Middendorff found it on the Boganida in 71° N. latitude. 



157. — Tree Pipit [Baumpieper]. 

 ANTHUS ARBOREUS, Brisson.i 



HfligolandisL : Pie-H:irrofs. Name onomatopcbic, after the call-note. 



Anthus arboreus. Naumann, iii. 758. 



Tree Pipit. Dresser, iii. 309. 



Pijnt des huissons, Temmiuck, Manuel, i. 271, iii. 194. 



This is one of the few birds which have attempted to breed 

 here ; unfortunately the attempt was unsuccessful, for the nest with 

 four eggs of the type mth brown spots like burnt marks, was des- 

 troyed by cats ; it had been placed against a large tuft of grass in 

 the middle of a large hedged-in grass-plot, about a hundred paces 

 in diameter, which adjoins my garden, and was protected agamst 

 every j^ossible disturbance by human hand. 



This bird is a common migratory species in Heligoland, but it 

 never makes its appearance imtil really warm weather has set in, 

 u.sualty not imtil about the end of April, being in such cases a daily 

 visitor throughout Maj'. It begins to pass through on its return 

 passage about the middle of August, and up to the last week in 

 September, in large niunbcrs. During both periods of migration it 

 is accompanied regularly by the Ortolan Bunting. 



This species breeds very numerously in central and northern 

 Europe and Asia, from the PjTenees to Kamtschatka, but does not 

 advance beyond the Polar Circle, except in places here and there. 



' Anthus triinalis (Linn.). 



