The Ground Lark 



[HERE are several species on 

 the run that may be called 

 homestead birds, such as the 

 New Zealand Pipit, or 

 Ground Lark, the Waxeye, 

 the Warbler, and the Fantail. A specimen 

 or two of each of these breeds may be 

 nearly always noticed about the gardens 

 or orchards or plantations. Each is at- 

 tracted by his special desire, the Pipit 

 by dug soils, the Waxeye and Warbler by 

 green fly on the rose beds, and caterpillars 

 on the flower borders, and the Fantail by 

 tree and shrub growth, and in mid-winter 

 especially by the blossoming gums that then 

 yield a plenteous supply of small moths 

 and insects. Nearly every day the New 

 Zealand Pipit may be seen, the little grey, 

 broT^Ti bird that half of us think is an 

 English skylark, and the other half fail to 



