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‘he beak is dark brown, inclining to light yellow at 
the base of the lower mandible; irides hazel; head 
streaked dark dusky brown and olive; nape and ear- 
coverts olive; over the eye there is a light streak ; 
back and scapular feathers dark dusky, almost black, 
margined with olive; tail-coverts the same, but the 
margins are broader, hardly allowing any of the 
dark part in the centre to appear; greater and 
lesser wing-coverts dusky, margined with very light 
brown, almost white; quills dusky, tertials margined 
with olive; tail dusky, the two centre feathers being 
margined with olive and the two outside feathers 
white, except a small patch of dusky in the inner 
web—there is also a small patch of white at the tip 
of the two next feathers; throat white, slightly 
tinged with yellowish olive; a dark broken streak 
runs on each side of the neck from the base of the 
lower mandible to the breast; the breast itself white, 
tinged with yellowish olive, most deeply at the sides, 
and spotted with dusky; belly and under tail-coverts 
white, tinged with yellowish olive; the flanks have a 
deeper tinge of the same; legs, toes and claws light 
brown; claw of the hinder toe quite as long as the 
toe. ‘The strong olive tinge on the whole plumage 
becomes less in the spring and summer, owing to the 
wearing of the margins of the feathers. 
The eggs of the present species in many cases very 
closely resemble those of the Tree Pipit, and there- 
fore require to be very carefully identified before 
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