7446 Birds. 



Gray Wagtail, Motacilla hoarula. 



Situation. Shelves of rocks, under stones in quarries and on 

 banks. 



Materials. Moss, bents and horsehair. 



Eggs, 5, 6. Gray, blotched with ochre-gray. 



Ray's Wagtail, Motacilla campestris. This bird is better known 

 among collectors by the names of " Yellow Wagtail" and " Motacilla 

 flava," both which names are considered properly to belong to another 

 European species which occasionally visits this country, but I think 

 does not breed here. 



Situation. On the ground. 



Materials. Hay, bents, fibrous roots, lined with horsehair and 

 cow's hair. 



Eggs, 4, 5. Pale umber-brown, with darker spots. 



Tree Pipit, Anthus arhoreus. This species is confounded with 

 the following, under the name of "Titlark": the name should be 

 confined to the Meadow Pipit. 



Situation. On the ground, under shelter of a loose turf or tuft of 

 grass. 



Materials. Moss, fibrous roots, wool, grasses, lined with finer 

 grasses and hair. 



Eggs, 4 — 6. Probably more variable than those of any other British 

 bird ; sometimes pale brown, thickly dotted with deep brown spots, 

 mostly forming a zone at the larger end ; sometimes deep brick-red 

 colour, thickly sprinkled with dots of a deeper shade ; at other times 

 pale or reddish, marked with spots and streaks, like the eggs of the 

 buntings; others closely resemble the red variety of the egg of the 

 blackcap, and others again are very similar to the e^^ of the house 

 sparrow. 



Meadow Pipit, Anthus pratensis. 



Situation. On the ground, protected, if possible, by a loose turf or 

 tuft of grass. 



Materials. Bents and the seed-stalk of Cardamine pratensis, lined 

 with very slender bents or horsehair. 



Eggs, 5, 6. Pale brown, freckled with spots of a deeper colour : 

 vary but little. 



Rock Pipit, Anthus ohscurus. 



Situation. Crevices or ledges of sea-cliffs. 



Materials. Coarse bents and sea-weed on the outside ; finer ones 

 and sometimes horsehair for the lining. 



Eggs, 4, 5. Gray, spotted with red-brown ; the spots crowded at 

 the larger end, like those of the meadow pipit. 



