MEADOW PIPIT. 



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THE MEADOW PIPIT. 



Alauda pratensis, The Titlark, 

 triviaiis, Pipit Lark, 

 pratensis. 



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Itus 



Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 481. 

 Mont. Ornith. Diet. 

 Titlark, ,, ,, ,, 



,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 225. 



Meadow Titling, Flem. Brit. An. p. 75. 



,, Pipit, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 260. 

 ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 117. 



,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. xvi. 



Pipit Farlouse, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 269. 



The Meadow Pipit is the smallest, the most common, 

 and accordingly the best-known species of this genus, and is 

 resident in the British Islands throughout the year. It in- 

 habits commons and waste lands generally, appearing to 

 prefer uncultivated districts ; and in the northern lake coun- 

 ties of England it is called the Ling bird, from its constantly 

 frequenting the moors, where it is one of the few small birds 



