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THE TREE-PIPIT. 



Anthus trivialis (L.) 



The records for the Tree-Pipit show that the bird arrived 

 in small numbers on the Sussex and Hampshire coasts 

 throughout April. The first arrivals travelled quickly 

 after reaching the coast and scattered throughout the 

 country, their places being filled in the south-east by the 

 new comers. 



The whole trend of the movement was evidently from 

 the south-east to the north, north-west and west, the 

 movements extending up the west and east sides of Great 

 Britain fairly simultaneously, but reaching the extreme 

 north rather earlier than the extreme south-west. There 

 is no evidence of any migration of the Tree-Pipit through 

 this country to the more northern parts of Europe, and as 

 our birds appear to arrive from the south-east this is 

 rather what might have been expected. 



Chkonological Summakt op Records. 



April 1 & 5. Surrey. 



8. Sussex, Hampshire and Surrey. 



10. Sussex and Hampshire (increase). Shropshire 

 (two parties migrating). 



11. Hampshire coast. 



12. Cheshire and Cardigan. 



13. Sussex (decrease). Kent, Essex, Staffordshire 

 and Merioneth. 



14. Surrey, Hertfordshire and Radnor. 



15. Grioucester, Yorkshire and Westmoreland. 



16. Bedford, Nottingham and Cambridge. 



17. Somerset (abundant after this date). 

 20. Denbigh and Suffolk. 



