BROWN BIRDS WITH SPOTTED BREAST* 85 



and the song is to be heard during open weather, 

 even in winter. 



WOODLARK 6 inches ; shorter tail ; no white outer tail- 

 feathers ; fuller white eyebrow ; rounded crest ; p6rehs 

 on trees. 



M K.M>O \V-PIPIT-5J inches ; a walker, but when it pauses 

 wags its tail ; also shows white outer tail-feather* in 

 flight, but latter is performed in violent jerks, unlike 

 plainer flight of Skylark. Call-note, a brisk ' Whctt ' 

 wfieet I ' Crest rounded. 



TREE-PIPIT 6 inches ; motions on the ground and in the 

 air as in the Meadow- Pi pit ; when flying exposes white 

 side-feathers in tail ; but when settled has also white, 

 double wing-bar. When singing, rises from and re- 

 turns to tree. 



ROCK-PIPIT 6i inches ; exclusively a bird of the coast ; 

 motions on the ground and during flight as in the 

 Meadow-Pipit Outer tail-feathers dusky-brown. 



WOODLARK. Form, similar to Skylark (plate 

 35), but with much shorter tail Length, 6 inches. 

 Upper parts ruddy-brown, with dark central streaks 

 to the feathers ; conspicuous white stripe over eye ; 

 tail black, tipped with white, the outer tail-feathers 

 dusky-brown ; under parts yellowish-white, streaked 

 with black. Resident 



Eggs. 4-5, greenish-white, closely spotted and 

 often zoned with dull reddish-brown and gray ; 

 83* -63 inch (plate 125). 



Nest. Of grass, lined with finer grass, and placed 

 on the ground under shelter of a tuft 



Distribution. Very local ; principally in some of 

 the southern counties of England, becoming rarer from 

 Midlands northward, until in Scotland it is all but 



