ments. 



152 



May in Central Europe. In the Pyrenees the best time appears to be the 

 last week in May and the first days of June. 

 Measure- Average of 100 eggs (55 by Rey and 45 by the writer), 21.3 X 15,52 



mm., Max. 24 X 15.8 and 22.5 X 16.5 mm., Min. 19.3 X 14.9 mm. Average 

 weight, 152 mg. (Rey). Exceptional eggs are recorded by Blasius (24 X 15.2 

 mm.) and Prazak (18.9 X 14 mm.). 



b. Blakiston's Pipit, A. spinoletta blakistoni Swinh. 



Breeding Range: Caucasus and probably also the S. Urals. [Also 

 Turkestan, Tian Shan, Altai, and Nan Shan to Chuanche.] 



Common above the tree limit throughout the Caucasus according to 

 Radde. Some form of this species also occurs in the Urals up to lat. 64° N. 

 On the Nan Shan Przewalski found a nest at a height of 11,200 ft. 



c. American Pipit, A. spinoletta pensilvanicus (Lath.). 



Plate 17, fig. 19—21 (Labrador). 



Eggs: Thienemann, Fortpfl., Tab. XXV, fig. 9, a— c. Baedeker, Tab. 35, 

 fig. 6. Seebohm, Br. Birds, pi. 14. 



Breeding Range: Subarctic N. America fi'om Alaska to Greenland, 

 and on the mountains above the tree limit as far S. as Colorado. (Has occurred 

 on Helgoland). 



For nesting notes see Cones, Birds of the North West, p. 40, Macoun, Cat. 

 Canadian Birds, p. 652, etc. Rey describes the eggs as intermediate between those 

 of A. pratensis and A. cervinus. Those which I have seen were very variable, 

 some showing a tendency towards the pink type, while others resembled the dark 

 brown type of A. cervinus eggs, or typical eggs of A. pratensis. 



Average of 44 eggs (20 by Rey and 24 by the writer), 19.54X14.58 mm., 

 Max. 23.2X15.3 and 22X16 mm., Min. 17.2X14 mm. Average weight, 126 mg. (Rey). 



d. British Rock Pipit, A. spinoletta obscurus (Lath.). 



Eggs: Hewitson, I. Ed. I, pi. LXVIII, fig. 1; II. Ed. I, pi. XXXVI, 

 fig. 2; III. Ed. I, pi. XLIV, fig. 3. Seebohm, Br. Birds, pi. 14; id. Col. Fig., 

 pi. 58a. Frohawk, Br. Birds, I, pi. Ill, fig. 102. 



Nest: 0. Lee, III, p. 132. 



British Local Names: Sea Titling, RocTi, Sea, or Sand Lark. 

 Scillies: Pinnick. Welsh: Ehedydd hacJi. I. of Man: Sea Lark. Scotland: 

 Sea Lintie. Orkneys and Shetlands: Tang Sparroiv, Teetick. Ireland: 

 Hock Lark. Erse: Kirkeen traw. 



Foreign Name: France: Pipi des roches. 



Anthus ohscurus (Lath.). Newton, ed. Yarrell, I, p. 586; Dresser, Birds 

 of Europe, III, p. 343; id. Man. Pal. Birds, p. 216; Saunders, Man., p. 143. 

 A. spinoletta obscura (Lath.). Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 283. 



Breeding Range: Coasts of British Isles, Channel Isles and N. W. 

 France. 



