64 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
It is met with chiefly in water-meadows and other low- 
lying situations, and is not uncommon throughout the 
Ceshhire Plain, where it affects the company of the 
grazing cattle. Although rarer on the Hills, it may be 
seen occasionally on the upland pastures; and a few 
pairs nest in the upper part of Longdendale. 
When the Yellow Wagtails are pairing, we have seen 
the male hover like a Kestrel about eighteen inches 
above the female in the grass below. This species 
takes insects on the wing in the manner of the Spotted 
Flycatcher. Mr. J. J. Cash tells us that on the Mersey, 
near Sale, he has seen at one time six or more birds 
sallying from the piles in the river bed to take their 
prey in the air. 
We have seen an immature bird, entirely white ex- 
cept for a tinge of yellow on the primaries, and with 
normally coloured irides, which was shot at Dunham 
Massey in 1895. 
TREE PIPIT, 
ANTHUS TRIVIALIS (Linnzus). 
Bloodlark, Titlark. 
The Tree Pipit arrives in Cheshire about the middle 
of April, and is generally distributed during the summer 
months, its characteristic song being a familiar sound 
in the wooded districts. Although absent from the 
moorlands, it occurs freely on the hillsides wherever 
there are plantations. In many of the parks, and in 
those portions of Delamere Forest where oaks pre- 
dominate, the Tree Pipit is particularly plentiful. In 
such situations the Cuckoo usually deposits her egg 
in the nest of this bird. 
