THE MEADOW PIPIT. 



most elevated mountain tops I have 

 ever visited in the Highlands. 



Its song is somewhat shrill, and not 

 so musical as that of the Tree Pipit. 

 It is uttered on the wing, the bird rising 

 to a height of thirty or forty feet in order 

 to deliver it ; also often from a stone 

 wall, stunted bush, or boulder. 



The alarm note of this species when 

 flushed sounds like peep, peep, and that 

 of distress when disturbed at the nest 

 trit, trit. Call note : zeeah, zeeah. 



The nest is generally built on a bank 

 and hidden by some overhanging tuft 

 of herbage, or amongst heather. I have, 



YOUNG MEADOW PIPIT PHOTOGRAPHED 

 WHILST SHELTERING BEHIND A STONE 

 DURING A HIGHLAND STORM. 



