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MEADOW PIPIT. 
PPL, PEPTY PARK. TITLING... (“MEADOW ISDN, 
MOSS CHEEPER. LING BIRD. GREY CHEEPER. MEADOW LARK. 
Anthus pratensis, Fiemine. Latuam. SELBY. GOouLp. 
Alauda 6 PENNANT. LATHAM. 
ae trivialis, MonrtTAGU. 
os campestris, LATHAM. 
Anthus—Some small bird. Praiensis—Of, or pertaining to meadows. 
Tue Titlark is a native of the three continents of the old 
world—Europe, Asia, and Africa. It occurs throughout the 
whole of the first-named quarter of the globe, ascending as 
high in the ‘scale of nations, as the Ferroe Islands and 
Iceland, the Orkneys and Shetland, Denmark, Norway, and 
Sweden, and even beyond the Arctic circle; in all the more 
temperate regions also—Holland, Dalmatia, and Sicily; and in 
the latter, in Egypt, Asia Minor, and Japan; and doubtless 
in numberless other regions. It is a very common and well- 
known species with us—one of our ‘hardy perennials;’ also in 
Ireland and Scotland the same. 
Meadows and marshland, hill and dale, waste and wilderness, 
moorland and heath, arable and pasture land, all are the 
home of the sober-clad little bird before us, but especially 
the wilder districts. It is found on the summits of our 
highest mountains, and even in the lowest depths of the 
plain below. I have observed them in hard weather to fre- 
quent much the neighbourhood of the sea, searching and 
finding among the heaps of sea-weed, ‘food convenient for 
them;’ and indeed at all times the sandy places that are to 
be met with along the line of coast, are a favourite resort 
