THE TREE PIPIT. 



(Anthus arboreus.) 



\ LTHOUGH a regular summer visitant to 

 ** England, the Tree Pipit, like the Night- 

 ingale, from some unexplained cause, is distri- 

 buted over a very limited area. It never reaches 

 Ireland, and is considered rare in Scotland, al- 

 though the nest has been found as far north as 

 Dumbarton, Aberdeen, Banff, and East Inver- 

 ness. 1 Even in Wales and Cornwall it is a scarce 

 bird, so that England may be said to be the 



1 Cf. A. G. More, in the "Ibis," 1865, p. 123. 



