THE MEADOW PIPIT 
ANTHUS PRATENSIS 
LocaL names in surrounding counties: ‘* Titlark ” 
(Essex). 
Status tn British AvirauNnA: A common and widely 
distributed resident, subject to considerable local migra- 
tion. 
RaptaL DisTRIBUTION WITHIN FIFTEEN MILES OF ST. 
Paut’s : This species is commoner and much more widely 
distributed than the Tree Pipit. It may be met with 
during autumn and winter especially on almost any piece 
of fairly open ground from St. James’s Park outwards. 
I have often seen it in parties in the Green Park, and it 
frequently visits Regent’s Park, Primrose Hill, and other 
similar spots, and may frequently be noticed on railway 
banks, in allotments, and so forth. Meadow Pipits are 
sometimes very numerous on Wormwood Scrubbs, and 
the bird breeds in many localities in the immediate 
vicinity. It would be impossible to mention all the 
places in the more rural suburbs where this Pipit nests. 
Nothing nearly so fastidious in its choice of a haunt as 
the Tree Pipit, it may be found breeding in all suitable 
spots within the Metropolitan area, but perhaps nowhere 
within four or five miles from the centre of our radius. 
As previously remarked, the bird is more ubiquitous in 
autumn and winter, and then resorts to places where it 
is never found at other times of the year. ‘This seems 
to be specially the case with respect to the Epping 
area. 
The Meadow Pipit is more of a ground bird than the 
Tree Pipit, and it specially delights in land of a marshy 
or wet character. It is active enough on the ground, 
running and walking to and fro, but seldom resorts to 
trees or bushes. In the early spring the male resumes 
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