128 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS. 



In summer it is common in Scandinavia, and 

 Mr. Wheelwright found it nesting in Lapland. 

 It goes as far north as the Faroe Isles and 

 Iceland.* According to Professor Reinhardt,^ 

 Dr. Paulsen, in Sleswick, received a single 

 specimen from Greenland in 1845 ; but he 

 adds that he (Professor R.) never saw it there 

 himself. The Meadow Pipit appears to be 

 generally distributed throughout Europe, and at 

 the approach of winter emigrates in a south- 

 easterly direction by way of Sicily and the Ionian 

 Islands to Palestine. Lord Lilford states that 

 it is very common in Corfu and Epirus in 

 winter.^ Canon Tristram found it in large flocks 

 throughout the winter in North Africa, "ap- 

 parently on passage ;" and in Southern Palestine 

 and in the Plains of Sharon he remarked that 

 it was very abundant. According to Sir R. 

 Schomburgk, it occurs as far eastward as Siam ; 

 but Mr. Blyth considered the Siamese pratensis 



1 See Professor Newton's remarks on " The Ornithology 

 of Iceland," appended to Baring Gould's " Iceland ; its Scenes 

 and Sagas,'' p. 409. 



2 "Ibis," 1861, p. 6. 3 "Ibis," i860, p. 229. 



