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MEADOW PIPIT. 



TITLARK. PIPIT. TITLING. MEADOW TITLING. MOSS CREEPER. LING BIRD. 

 GREY CREEPER. MEADOW LARK. 



PLATE LXVUI. 



Antlius pratensis, FLEMING. LATHAM. SELBT. GOULD. 



Alauda pratensis, PENNANT. LATHAM. 



" trivialis, MONTAGU. 



" campestris, LATHAM. 



THE nest is placed either on or close to the ground, often in marshy 

 places, among grass, near a tuft, on the branch of a very low bush, a 

 bank, or a wall of turf. It is composed of grass, the finer portions 

 constituting the lining, with occasionally a little moss and hair. One 

 has been known to be built on the end of a plank, which formed 

 part of a heap of timber. 



The eggs are from four to six in number, of a light reddish brown, 

 or reddish white, or pale brown, or pale blue colour, mottled over, 

 especially near the larger end, with darker brown. They vary much in 

 depth of colouring, some being much darker than others: hardly any 

 two sets are exactly alike in this respect. 



One fine variety, figured by Professor Thieneman, in his beautiful 

 work, is wholly of a fine dark rich brown, slightly variegated by being 

 here and there a trifle darker or lighter. 



A second is of a rather pale bluish grey, mottled all over with darker 

 spots of the same, and a zone of minute dots near the larger end. 



A third is of a greenish yellow hue, mottled all over in a like manner. 



The figures of the egg and the nest are taken from specimens 

 obligingly forwarded for the use of this work, by J. R. De Capel Wise, 

 Esq., of Lincoln College, Oxford. 



