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the back the same colours, the centre of each feather 

 being dark and the margins light ; the scapulars and 

 tail-coverts have the margins of the feathers darker 

 than those of the back, and tinged with olive-green; 

 lesser wing-coverts almost black, margined with dull 

 white ; greater coverts the same, margined with light 

 brown, shaded to dull white towards the tips ; quills 

 dusky brown, slightly margined with light olive- 

 brown, the margins of the tertials being the broadest 

 one of the tertial-feathers is as long as the longest 

 quill ; throat almost white, very slightly tinged with 

 light yellowish brown; the breast is rather more 

 tinged with light yellowish brown and spotted with 

 dark brown; flanks the same, streaked with dark 

 brown ; belly and under tail-coverts the same as the 

 throat; tail-feathers the same as the quills, except 

 the outer feather on each side, the greater part of the 

 outside web of which, and part of the inner web, is 

 white, and the next feather on each side has a small 

 white spot on the tip ; legs, toes and claws pale 

 yellow-brown, the hind claw shorter than the toe. 



Hewitson says the eggs of the Tree Pipit vary 

 more than those of any bird : the general colouring 

 appears to me to be a dirty white ground, very much 

 speckled with a purplish red : some of the varieties 

 also resemble very closely those of the Meadow 

 Pipit. 



MEADOW PIPIT, Anthus pratensis. The Meadow 

 Pipit, the "Titlark" of Bewick and some other 



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