286 BRITISH BIRDS' NESTS. 



on either side greyish, on the exterior webs and at 

 the tips. Chin and throat greyish, or dull yellow- 

 ish-white, the latter and sides of neck mottled and 

 streaked with brown. Breast dull greenish- white, 

 streaked and spotted with brown. Sides olive- 

 brown ; belly, vent, and under tail-coverts dull 

 yellowish-white, sparingly streaked with brown. 

 Legs and toes reddish-brown ; claws black. 



The female is a trifle smaller, but similar in 

 plumage. 



Situation and Locality. On ledges and in crevices 

 of rock ; under an overhanging piece of stone, or 

 in the shelter of a tuft of grass growing on rocky 

 sea coasts, pretty generally round our shores, with 

 the exception of Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, and 

 Lincoln. 



Materials. Seaweed and dry grass of various 

 kinds, with an inner lining of finer grass, and occa- 

 sionally horsehair. 



Eggs. Four or five, grey in ground-colour, 

 slightly tinged with green or reddish - brown, 

 minutely and closely spotted and mottled with 

 underlying markings of grey, and surface spots of 

 reddish-brown, occasionally marked at the larger 

 end with one or two dark brown lines. The spots 

 are, as a rule, more numerous at the larger end. 

 Size about .85 by .63 in. Distinguished by large 

 size and locality of the nest. (See Plate II.) 



Time. April, May, June, and July. 



Remarks. Resident, although numbers migrate. 

 Notes : call, a shrill hist or pst. Local and other 

 names : Shore Pipit, Rock Lark, Sea Titling, 

 Dusky Lark, Field Lark, Sea Lintie. Sits 

 closelv. 



