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PET. PLP: 
PIPIT LARK. FIELD TITLING. FIELD LARK. 
LESSER FIELD LARK. TREE LARK. GRASSHOPPER LARK. 
LESSER CRESTED LARK. SHORT-HEELED FIELD LARK. 
MEADOW LARK. 
Anthus arboreus, SELBY. JENYNS. 
“6 minor, BEWICK. 
Alauda trivialis, PENNANT. MONTASU. 
2 minor, LATHAM. 
Anthus—Some small bird. Arboreus—Of, or pertaining to trees. 
Tue Tree Pipit is found throughout the European continent 
—in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, plentifully in France 
and Italy, the forests of Thuringia, and in Switzerland, and 
also in Madeira. It probably winters in Africa, and is found 
in Asia—in Japan. 
It is rather a common species with us, but principally in 
the southern counties. In Cornwall, however, it is said to 
be rare, and also rather so in Wales. 
In Ireland it is not certainly known to oceur. In Orkney 
if is an occasional visitant. It is said by Clouston to have 
occurred in Sanday. 
Wooded districts in the cultivated parts of the country are 
its resort, and if you 
‘Know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows; 
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows;’ 
There, if there are trees hard by, you will very probably meet 
with the Tree Pipit ‘in the season of the year.’ 
This species is a migratory one. It appears in England 
about the 20th. of April, and in Scotland in the beginning 
