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TREE PIPIT. 



PIPIT LARK. FIELD TITLING. FIELD LARK. LESSER FIELD LARK. 



TREE LARK. GRASSHOPPER LAEK. LESSER CRESTED LARK. MEADOW LARK. 



SHORT-HEELED FIELD LARK. 



PLATE LXX. 



Anthus arboreus, SELBY. JENTNS. 



" minor, BEWICK. 



Alauda trivialis, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



" minor, LATHAM. 



THE nest is placed on the ground, in woods and plantations, under 

 the shelter or secrecy of a small shrub, or tuft of herbage, or perchance 

 on the branch of some low bush, if close to the ground. It is formed 

 of small roots and grass, with occasionally a little moss, and is lined 

 with a few hairs. It measures about three inches across, and about an 

 inch in thickness of construction. 



The eggs are four or five in number, and are generally greyish white 

 in colour, with a faint tinge of purple, clouded and spotted with purple 

 brown, or purple red. They vary almost f ad infinitum/ more so, it is 

 said, than those of any other land bird. Some are dull bluish white, 

 spotted with purple brown; others reddish white, entirely covered with 

 specks of deep red; others reddish white, clouded with pale purple 

 grey, and finely streaked and spotted with rust-coloured black; others 

 again pale purple red, minutely marked in a net-like manner with a 

 darker red. 



One is pale grey, with large distinct spots and marks of dark greenish 

 black, and a few yellowish specks. 



