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p^„i,ly—MO TA CIL LID.^. 



The Water-Pipit. 



Anthus spipohita, LiNN. 



^^NLY four examples of tWs species, all from Sussex has been -cognized: 

 O I therefore, do not consider that (at present) it has much cla.m to be 

 ^^ rLgarded aJ British: at best it is but a chance and very rare straggler 

 to our shores. 



Pa^ily^MO TA CILLID/E. 



The Rock-Pipit. 



Anthus obscurus, LATH. 



SVFROHM savs that the " Rock-Pipit is little more than a coast-form of the 

 Wa°e"pipran* appears to be confined to the rocky portions of the coasts 

 orCh W tern E.frope. from the White Sea to the Bay of Btscay. t .s 

 f „H on the shores of the Baltic; but there is no satisfactory evidence of .ts 

 t^nentL; thofe of the Mediterranean. It is a resident thronghont its range, except 



" ''rTtTckXitis a resident on all the coasts of the British Islands, with 



