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83. MEADOW PIPIT.—(Anthus pratensis). 
Titlark, Pipit Lark, Meadow Titling, Moor Tit or Titling, 
Heather-Lintie, Moss-Cheeper, Ling bird, Meadow Lark.—A very 
common bird here, both in the enclosed lands and especially on 
the moors. It is amusing to observe how they sometimes wind 
their way among the ling, instead of flymg from the place at 
which they have alighted. Its nest is always on the ground, 
sometimes in the middle of a grass or corn-field, sometimes 
nearer the hedge, but always so placed as to be very well if not 
very closely concealed. One I found accidentally on the moor 
was in the side of a cavity left by the extraction of a huge 
surface block of stone, in a kind of small hollow or recess, and 
completely covered in by earth and ling. In addition to its five. 
proper eggs, this nest contained a Cuckoo’s egg. The nest is 
made of bents, lined with the same and some hairs. The eggs 
are from four to six, and vary in colour. Mr. Yarrell’s descrip- 
tion is, “of areddish brown colour, mottled over with darker 
brown.” The red is hardly discoverable, if at all, in some 
Thave, and I should have said “dusky brown.” —Fig. 21, plate IT]. 
84. ROCK PIPIT.—(Anthus petrosus). 
Dusky Lark, Rock Lark, Field Lark, Sea Titling, Sea Lintie. 
This bird, it seems, was long confounded with the two last. It 
is seldom met with far inland, and is not always found near 
rocks, notwithstanding its name. It is a ground-builder, and 
where there are rocks handy, the nest is very likely to be on 
their tedges, if only a little grass or the like grows there. It is 
composed of various dry grasses, and contains four or five eggs 
of a greenish cast, and mottled with dusky brown or dark 
cinereous markings. 
85. RICHARD’S PIPIT.—(Anthus Ricardi). 
Only an occasional visitor to our shores. 
