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TREE PIPIT. 
PIPIT LARK. FIELD TITLING. FIELD 
LARK. LESSER FIELD LARK. TREE LARK. GRASSHOPPER 
LARK. LESSER CRESTED LARK. MEADOW LARK. 
SHORT-HEELED FIELD LARK. 
PLATE LXxX. 
Anthus arbureus, 4 : SELBY. JENYNS. 
Anthus minor, : F Bewicx. 
Alauda trivialis. 3 . Pennant. Monracu. 
_ Alauda minor, . , . LAatHam. 
‘THE nest is placed on the ground, in woods and 
: plantations, under the shelter or secrecy of a small 
; shrub, or tuft of herbage, or perchance on the branch 
of some low bush, if close to the ground. It is formed 
of small roots and grass, with occasionally a little moss, 
and is lined with a few hairs. It measures about three 
inches across, and about an inch in thickness of 
construction. 
The eggs are four or five in number, and are generally 
: greyish white in colour, with a faint tinge of purple, 
clouded and spotted with purple brown, or purple red. 
They vary almost ‘ad infinitum,’ more so, it is said, than 
those of any other land bird. Some are dull bluish white, 
spotted with purple brown; others reddish white, entirely 
covered with specks of deep red; others reddish white, 
clouded with pale purple grey, and finely streaked and 
