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fuscatus Blyth) has been found nesting on the low hills near Fu-chau by 

 Rickett and La Touche. 



Placed on the ground, often in a hoof print, and difficult to find, Nest. 

 as the hen runs from the nest when warned by the cock, which is always 

 on the watch. La Touche and Rickett describe the nest of A. ricliardi 

 infiiscatus as a loose cup of dry grass with sometimes a few twigs or a 

 little moss, placed in a hollow under a thick grass tuft {This 1905, p. 47). 



4 — 6 in number, varying in ground colour from pale olive or greenish Eggs. 

 grey to dirty pink, and as a rule thickly marked with fine olive or reddish 

 brown spots and obscure underlying grey markings. Like so many Pipits' 

 eggs, they tend to fall into two types, a greenish and a reddish one. Some 

 varieties have been compared to eggs of the Shore Lark and White Wagtail. 

 Those of A. r. infiiscatus from Foh-kien are boldly spotted. 



Apparently in the first half of June in Siberia, while Dybowski is Breeding 

 of opinion that a second brood is reared in July. The southern race breeds ^*^*^°"- 

 in Foh-kien in April and May. 



Average of 24 eggs (10 by DyboAvski, 12 by the writer, etc.), Measure- 

 21.38 X 16.4 mm., Max. 23 X 17.2 mm., Min. 20 X 16.5 and 20.8 X 15.4 '"^°*'- 

 mm. Weight of 1 eg^^ 167 mg. (Rey). Four eggs of A. r. infiiscatus 

 are smaller, averaging 20.05 X 14.95 mm. 



73. Tawny Pipit, Aiitliiis eampestris (L.). 



Plate 18, fig. 5—8 (Germany). 



Eggs: Thienemann, Fortpfl., Tab. XXV, fig. 13, a — c. Baedeker, 

 Tab. 35, fig. 2. Taczanowski, Tab. LX, fig. 2. Seebohm, Br. Birds, pi. 14; 

 id. Col. Fig., pi. 58 a. 



Foreign Names: Bohemia: Linduska rolni. Denmark: Markpiher. 

 France: Pipi rousseline. Germany: Brachjneper. Holland: Duinpiepe?'. 

 Hungary: Parlagi pipis. Italy: Calandro. Poland: Siviergotek rudaivy. 

 Portugal: Curintuni, B^nssia: Stscheivritza polewaya. Sardinia: Fanfarrone. 

 Sweden: Fjcill Pipldrka. 



Anthus eampestris L. Newton, ed. Yarrell, I, p. 592; Dresser, Birds 

 of Europe, HI, p. 317; id. Man. Pal. Birds, p. 218; Saunders, Man., p. 137. 

 A. eampestris eampestris L. Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 267. 



Breeding Range: From mid Sweden and the Gulf of Finland south- 

 ward locally over the whole of Europe, but absent from Norway, the 

 British Isles, Iceland, etc. [Also found in N. Africa, Palestine and Asia 

 Minor to Afghanistan, and S. W. Siberia.] 



In Sweden it is found in Blekinge, Halland, and is common along con- 

 the sandy coast of Sk^ne as far as Kullaberff, and has been recorded from ^'°®°'^'^ 



"' o' Europe. 



Oland and S. Gotland. Apparently scarce in Denmark, it is however found 



