NATURE'S CAROL SINGERS. 



THE MEADOW PIPIT. 



THE Meadow Pipit, or 

 Titlark as the bird is 

 frequently called, is 

 much more abundant 

 than the Tree Pipit. 

 It is rather smaller in 

 size, duller in colour, 

 has more and smaller 

 spots on the breast, and 

 when hunting for food 

 has a habit of making 

 little periodical rushes after 

 insects in a more wagtail- 

 like manner than its re- 

 lative. 



This species is partial to open pastures, 

 and bent and heather-clad moorland 

 districts, and is very abundant on the 

 Fells in the North of England, where I 

 can safely say I have found hundreds of 

 nests during the course of my life. I 

 have met with it breeding quite com- 

 monly as low down as the Norfolk 

 Broad district and as high up as the 

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