MOTACILLIDE. Iq! 
THE WATER-PIPIT. 
ANTHUS SPIPOLETTA (Linnzeus). 
The true Water-Pipit is an unusual visitor to England; its 
occurrences having been estimated as more frequent than was really 
the case, owing to a confusion with the Scandinavian form of the 
Rock-Pipit, which occasionally visits us. The first authenticated 
examples of the Water-Pipit were recorded by Mr. Pratt of Brighton, 
in 1864, when one killed near that town, and another taken near 
Worthing, were sent to Gould for identification ; while subsequently 
three have been obtained at Shoreham and one at Lancing, on 
the spring and autumn migrations. On April 5th 1895, Mr. G. H. 
Caton Haigh shot one at Tetney, Lincolnshire, and on April 5th 
1897 he obtained another at the mouth of the Glaslyn, Carnarvon- 
shire. Both these specimens were exhibited at meetings of the 
British Ornithologists’ Club. 
During the breeding-season the Water-Pipit is to be found on 
the Alps and the mountain ranges of Germany and Central Europe, 
the Pyrenees, and some of the higher regions in the Spanish 
Peninsula, even in the extreme south. Two examples are said to 
have been obtained on Jan Mayen Island early in June by the 
