430 ANTHID A. 
The Meadow Pipit, Titling, or Moss-cheeper, is as well 
known on the heathery mountains of Scotland as it is in 
England, Wales, or Ireland. According to Dr. Neill, Mr. 
Bullock, the Rev. Mr. Low, — the author of the Fauna 
Orcadensis,—and Mr. Dunn, it is common also in summer 
on the Islands of Orkney and Shetland, remaining on 
some of the former throughout the year. It is common 
also during summer in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, 
taking a very high northern range, and visiting even the 
Faroe Islands and Iceland. It inhabits the whole of the 
European continent, being common as far south as Spain, 
Italy, and Corfu, frequenting the plains from October to 
the spring, and passing the summer on the hills and moun- 
tains. It inhabits Tangiers, Sicily, and Malta, it is found 
also in Egypt and at Trebizond. Mr. Gould has seen spe- 
cimens from Western India; and M. Temminck includes 
it in his Catalogue of the Birds of Japan. 
The beak of this bird, which is more slender than that of 
the Tree Pipit, is dark brown, but inclining to light yellow 
brown at the base of the under mandible : irides hazel; the 
feathers of the head, neck, back, wing, and upper tail- 
coverts, dark brown in the middle, much lighter brown at 
the margin all round; both sets of wing-coverts broadly 
edged with pale wood-brown; primaries, secondaries, and 
tertials, brownish black, edged with light brown; the two 
central tail-feathers rather shorter than the others, and 
dark brown ; the outer tail-feather on each side white, 
with a small patch of brown on the broad inner web; the 
next tail-feather on each side dark brown, with a small 
patch of white at the tip of, the mner web; the six other 
tail-feathers blackish brown; the chin, throat, and sides of 
the neck, pale brownish white ; ear-coverts a uniform patch 
of darker brown ; the breast spotted with dark brown, on 
