884 



ANTHID.*:. 



INSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



ANT HID £. 





THE TREE PIPIT. 



Alauda Irivialis, Pipit Lark, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 484. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



,, 7/UHor, Tree Pipit, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 223. 



Anthus ,, Field Titling, Flem. Biit. An. p. 75. 



,, arboreus. Tree Pipit, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 262. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert, p. 118. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xix. 



,, ,, Pipit des btiissons, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 271. 



Anthus. Generic Characters. — Beak straight, slender ; the superior ridge 

 at the base of the upper mandible rather elevated ; the sides compressed towards 

 the point ; the tip slightly bent downwards and emarginated. Nostrils basal, 

 lateral, oval, partly concealed by a membrane. Wings with the first three 

 quill-feathers very nearly equal in length, and the longest in the wing; the 

 tertials very long. Toes three before, and one behind, with the outer toe 

 united to the middle one as far as the first joint ; hind claw curved, and more 

 or less produced. 



