TREE PIPIT. 



INSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



447 



ANTHID^E. 





THE TREE PIPIT. 



Anthus arbor eus. 



Alauda trivialis, Pipit Lark, 



>t )j 



minor, Tree Pipit, 



Anthus, Field Titling, 



arbore, Tree Pipit, 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 484. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 223. 



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 75. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 262. 

 JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 118. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Pipit des buissons, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 271. 



ANTHUS. Generic Characters. Beak straight, slender ; the superior 

 ridge at the base of the upper mandible rather elevated; the sides com- 

 pressed towards the point ; the tip slightly bent downwards and emargi- 

 nated. Nostrils basal, lateral, oval, partly concealed by a membrane. 

 Wings with the first three quill-feathers very nearly equal in length, and 

 the longest in the wing ; the tertials very long. Toes, three before, and 

 one behind, with the outer toe united to the middle one as far as the first 

 joint ; hind claw curved, and more or less produced. 



