MOTACILLIDA. 137 
THE TAWNY PIPIT. 
ANTHUS CAMPESTRIS (Linnzus). 
The Tawny Pipit was first noticed as a wanderer to our islands by 
the late Mr. G. Dawson Rowley, who recognized two examples shot 
in autumn near Brighton, one of which had previously been taken 
for a Richard’s Pipit (Ibis 1863, p. 37). Since that time about a 
score have been obtained, at the same season of various years, in 
Sussex ; one at Trescoe, Scilly Islands, in September 1868; one at 
Bridlington, Yorkshire, on November 2zoth 1869; and one near 
Lowestoft, September 2nd 1890; while other occurrences may have 
been overlooked. 
It is somewhat remarkable that the Tawny Pipit should not have 
been noticed on our shores in spring; inasmuch as it is an annual 
visitor, for the purpose of breeding, to the sandy dunes of the north 
of France and Holland, and suitable dry wastes inland, Rare 
in Denmark, it passes over Heligoland on migration, and is not 
uncommon in the south of Sweden; while on the islands and the 
south-eastern side of the Baltic as far as Riga it is generally 
distributed in summer. Southward it occurs, either breeding or on 
passage, in most of the stony and arid districts of Europe down to 
the Mediterranean ; north of which sea it is not found in winter. 
In Northern Africa it is probably a resident species; while its 
migrations are known to extend to the Canaries and down to 
