n8 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



Nest. Differs considerably in the materials used for its 

 construction, according to locality, being generally built of 

 fine dry grass, sometimes intermixed with sea-weed and the 

 stalks of shore-plants. Some of them have an admixture of 

 moss, and are frequently lined with hair. As Air. Seebohm 

 observes, when the birds can obtain hair, they use it ; where 

 fine grass only can be procured, they generally employ it for 

 the construction of the nest, whilst in localities affording a 

 more extensive choice, the materials are more varied. The 

 nest is generally placed in a well-concealed situation, but 

 always close to the sea-shore. It is sometimes placed in a cliff 

 several hundred feet above the level of the waves, more often 

 close to the shore under a tuft or in the hole of a rock or a 

 bank. 



Eggs. Four to five in number, and very dark as a rule in 

 colour, the ground-tint being greyish-white or greenish-white, 

 overlaid with spots and mottlings of dark brown or reddish- 

 brown, so thickly distributed as to impart to the eggs a uni- 

 form appearance. Some clutches are much paler than others 

 and have a white ground, spotted with brown, very much after 

 the pattern of a Tree-Pipit's egg ; these light-coloured eggs are, 

 however, the exception, the general tone being very dark. 

 Axis, 0-85-0*9 ; diam., 0-65. 



VIII. THE SCANDINAVIAN ROCK-PIPIT. ANTHUS RUPESTRIS. 



Anthus rupestris, Nilss. Orn. Suee., i., p. 245, pi. 9, figs, i, 2 

 (1817). 



Adult in Breeding Plumage. Similar to the preceding bird, bi 

 with the under surface of the body uniform vinous, without 

 spots. Total length, 6'i inches; wing, 3-4; tarsus, 0-85. 



Winter Plumage. Indistinguishable from that of the ordinarj 

 Rock-Pipit of the British Islands. 



Range in Great Britain. An autumn migrant to the east C( 

 of our islands, and passing regularly along the south coast 

 returning by the same route from west to east in the spring, 

 which season the differences between this race and our owr 

 Rock-Pipit are easily discernible. 



Range outside the British Islands. Occurs along the rockj 



