PASSERES. ( 113 ) MOTACILLID^. 



THE MEADOW PIPIT. 



TITLARK, TITLING, MEADOW TITLING, MOSS CHEEPER,^ 



GREY CHEEPER, MEADOW LARK, PIPIT LARK, 



MOOR PIPIT, LING-BIRD. 



A nthus pratensis. 



The titlenefollonit the goilk, and gart hyr sing—guk, guk. 



Lindsay, Complaynt of Scotland. 



The Meadow Pipit is common on all our moors and upland 

 pastures during summer, when it may be frequently seen 

 rising from the ground, with its feeble cry of " Peep-peep- 

 peep," and after flying a short distance with an undulating 

 flight, again alighting amongst the heather or grass, or on 

 some moorland stone or dyke. The Titling is associated 

 in our minds with the wild uncultivated districts of the 

 Lammermuirs — 



The round bare hill, 

 The Law which ne'er has felt the plough, 

 The pastoral slope and wimpling rill, 

 The rushy bog and ferny knowe.^ 



It has given its name to the " Titlin Cairn," situate on the 

 march of the Parishes of Longformacus and Lauder, between 

 Hunt Law (1625 ft.) and Wedder Lairs (1593 ft.), two of the 



' See Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary. 



'-' Pronounced "Sheeper" in Berwickshire. 



5 Dr. Henderson's MS. Poems. 



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