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TREE PIPIT. 



PIPIT LARK. FIELD TITLING. FIELD LAHK. 



LESS i: 11 FIELD LAHK. TREE LARK. GRASSHOPPER LARK'. 



LESSER C'RKSTK!) LARK. SHORT-HEELED FIELD LARK. 



MEADOW LARK. 



Ant has arboreus, SKLBY. JEXYXS. 



' minor, BEWICK. 



Mauda trivia/is, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



" minor, LATHAM. 



small bird. Arbzreus Of, or pertaining to trees. 



THE Tree Pipit is found throughout the European continent 

 in Denmark, Xonvav, and Sweden, plentifully in France 

 and Italy, the forests of Thuringia, and in Switzerland, and 

 also in Madeira. It probably winters in Africa, and is found 

 in Asia in Japan. 



It is rather a common species with us, but principally in 

 the southern counties. In Cornwall, however, it is said to 

 be rare, and also rather so in Wales. 



In Ireland it is not certainly known to occur. In Orkney 

 it is an occasional visitant. It is said by Clouston to have 

 occurred in San day. 



Wooded districts in the cultivated parts of the country are 

 its resort, and if you 



'Know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows ; 

 Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows;' 



There, if there are trees hard by, you will very probably meet 

 with the Tree Pipit 'in the season of the year.' 



This species is a migratory one. It appears in England 

 about the 20th. of April, and in Scotland in the beginning 



