BROWN BIRDS WITH SPOTTED BREASTS. 85 



and the song is to be heard during open weather, 

 even in winter. 



WOODLARK — 6 inches ; shorter tail ; no white outer tail- 

 feathers ; fuller white eyebrow ; rounded crest ; perches 

 on trees. 



MEADOW-PIPIT— 5f inches ; a walker, hut when it pauses 

 wags its tail ; also shows white outer tail-feathers in 

 flight, but latter is performed in violent jerks, unlike 

 plainer flight of Skylark. Call-note, a brisk ' Whcct ! 

 wheet!' Crest rounded. 



TREE-PIPIT — 6 inches ; motions on the ground and in the 

 air as in the Meadow-Pipit ; Avhen flying exposes white 

 side-feathers in tail ; hut when settled has also white, 

 double wing-bar. When singing, rises from and re- 

 turns to tree. 



ROCK-PIPIT — 6^ inches ; exclusively a bird of the coast ; 

 motions on the ground and during flight as in the 

 Meadow-Pipit. Outer tail-feathers dusky-brown. 



WOODLARK.— Form, similar to Skylark (plate 

 85), but with much shorter tail. Length, 6 inches. 

 Upper parts ruddy-brown, with dark central streaks 

 to the feathers ; conspicuous white stripe ov^er eye ; 

 tail black, tipped with white, the outer tail-feathers 

 dusky-brown ; under parts yellowish- white, streaked 

 with black. Resident. 



Eggs. — 4-5, greenish-white, closely spotted and 

 often zoned with dull reddish-brown and gray ; 

 •83X-63 inch (plate 125). 



Nest. — Of grass, lined with finer grass, and jDlaced 

 on the ground under shelter of a tuft. 



Distribution. — Very local ; principally in some of 

 the southern counties of England, becoming rarer from 

 Midlands northward, until in Scotland it is all but 



