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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 LXX. 



Anihus arhoreus, . . Selbt. Jenyns. 

 Anthus minor, . . Bewick. 



Alatida trivialis. . . Pennant. Montagu. 

 . Alauda minor, - . . . Latham. 



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 redj others reddish white, 

 clouded with pale purple grey, and finely streaked and 



