On Sea and Shore. 2 1 3 



spotted to imitate grains of sand. These birds, 

 again, evince little or no anxiety during our search 

 for their eggs; they seem fully aware that the best 

 policy is to leave them to the safety ensured by their 

 protective coloration. They are laid in Lincolnshire 

 in June, and fresh eggs of both species may be got 

 together during that month; and during the day- 

 time the nearly vertical sun renders incubation 

 scarcely necessary. Both these species may be 

 found breeding here and there along the shore right 

 up to the H umber, and from Spurn still farther 

 northwards until the coast assumes a more rocky 

 character as we approach the famous Flamborough 

 headland. When we reach the rocks a little Passerine 

 bird makes its appearance, and this is the Rock 

 Pipit. As its name implies — and it is a most appro- 

 priate one — the bird is only found breeding on a 

 rocky shore. Given this, its distribution round our 

 entire coast-line is a very general one. It breeds as 

 commonly on the rocky shores of Devon as on the 

 Hebrides and the Fame Islands; but there are no 

 Rock Pipits on the flat coast-line between the 

 Thames and the H umber. We meet with it again, 

 however, here on the Yorkshire coast, and cannot 

 easily mistake it, for it is about the only small bird 

 that dwells in such a haunt during summer. 



Travelling northwards again until we reach the 

 coast of Northumberland, where between the towns 



