450 .ANTHIDJE. 



Derbyshire ; and Mr. Selby includes it among the birds of 

 Durham and Northumberland, as a summer visitor, making 

 its first appearance every season in May. 



Our Tree Pipit is a summer visitor also to Denmark, 

 Norway, and Sweden, and from thence southward is dif- 

 fused generally over the European continent to Italy ; but 

 in Provence, at Genoa, and Rome, it is still only a summer 

 visitor, going farther south in September. It is known to 

 be an inhabitant of the island of Madeira, and is found 

 at Tangiers and Algeria ; it is also found in Sicily, Malta, 

 and Crete, and M. Temminck includes it in his Catalogue 

 of the Birds of Japan. 



The beak is dark brown ; the base of the lower mandi- 

 ble pale yellow brown ; the irides hazel ; the head, neck, 

 back, and wings, olive brown, of two shades of colour, the 

 centre of each feather being darker than the surrounding 

 edge; the smaller rounded wing-coverts blackish brown, 

 edged and tipped with buffy white; the greater wing- 

 coverts also dark brown, edged with pale brown, the light- 

 coloured ends of the two sets of coverts forming bars 

 across the wing; quill -feathers dark brown; the tertials 

 large, with a broad outer edge of pale brown ; upper tail- 

 coverts nearly uniform brown ; the outer tail-feather on 

 each side, with nearly all the narrow outer web, and part 

 of the broad inner web, of a dull white, tinged with 

 brown, the other parts of the feather clove brown; the 

 second feather has only a small patch of dull white at the 

 end of the inner web, the remaining portion of that feather 

 on each side, and all the central feathers between them 

 clove brown, the two in the middle having lighter brown 

 margins. The chin and throat pale brownish white ; from 

 the lower angle of the under mandible a dark brown streak 

 passes backwards and downwards ; below this line on the 

 sides of the neck, and on the breast in front, are various 



