246 BIRDS' NESTS. 



bush, but very frequently on a dry exposed 

 common, or on a rock. The eggs are very 

 beautiful, white, mottled, and veined with 

 bluish grey, and having somewhat the appear- 

 ance of marble. 



TREE PIPIT. Anthus arboren*. 



PlATE X.X. IlGS. 1 AND 2. 



THE nest of the Tree Pipit is constructed of 

 moss and dry grass, and lined with fine bents 

 and hair, and is always placed on the ground, 

 either on the skirt of a wood, or in the open 

 glade of a grove. The eggs vary so much in 

 colour and marking, as almost to defy de- 

 scription. Accurate representations of the 

 principal varieties are given in the plate. The 

 Meadow Pipit (Plate XIX. Figs. 1 and .2) and 

 Shore Pipit construct nests very like that 

 of the Tree Pipit, the former in the open 

 country, the latter in the neighbourhood of the 

 sea-shore. The eggs, from four to six in num- 



