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TREE PIPIT. 



PIPIT LATiK. FIELD TITLING. FIELD LAEK. 



LESSER FIELD LARK. TREE LAEK. GRASSHOPPER LARK. 



LESSER CRESTED LARK. SHORT-HEELED FIELD LAEK. 



MEADOW LARK. 



Anthus arbcveus, S-KLBV. Jexyns. 



" minor, Bewick. 



Alauda trivia/is. Pennant. Montagl', 



" mhwr, Latham. 



Anthus— Some small bird. Arhoreus—Gf, or pertaining to trees. 



The Tree Pipit is found througliout 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 soutliern counties. In Cornwall, however, it is said to 

 be rare, and also rather so in Wales. 



In Ireland it is not certainly known to occur. In Orkney 

 it 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 



*Kno\v 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 



