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and in both they go off considerably in cap- 
tivity. The older birds show the best colours. 
Sides brown with dark streaks, under parts 
white, wings and tail dusky brown.!. They 
breed chiefly in the north of England and 
Scotland. 
The Meadow Pipit or Titlark (length 643 
inches). I have sometimes seen this bird near 
London. It is a plainly-coloured bird of a 
small, skylark-like appearance im plumage 
(tit-lark, small lark, like tit-mouse), being ash- 
grey tinted olive in the upper parts, each 
feather here having a dark brown centre, under 
parts dull greyish-white, with long spots of 
darker brown. Tail long (2% inches), dark 
brown. But though skylark-like even to 
singing whilst hovering near the nest, they 
nowadays are classed with the wagtails. 
And if you look at them you will see they are 
smaller than skylarks (skylark, 74 inches) and 
sit much like a wagtail and frisk their tails. 
They are good runners, too, like them. The 
flight also is more wagtail-like. The note is 
1 Colour in flight, dark brown. Flight swift and 
dipping. 
