128 OUU 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. 



