216 PASSERES. MOTACILLA. MeEabow 
+, Meadow Pipit, or Tit.—Anthus pratensis, Bechst. 
PLATE 49. Fig. 4. 
Anthus pratensis, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 732. t. 36. f. 2. 
Alauda pratensis, Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. p. 49. 3. sp. 5.—Linn. Syst. 1. 
p- 287. 2.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 792.—Raii, Syn. p. 69. A. 3.— Will. p. 150. 
—Briss. 3. p. 343. 3. 
Spipola altera Aldrov. Raii, Syn. p. 80. 4.—Will. p. 153. 171. 
Alauda campestris, Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. p. 495. 12. 
Le Cujelier, Buff: Pl. Enl. 660. f. 2. 
L’Alouette de Pres, Buff: v. 5. p. 31. t. 3. 
Pepit Farlouse, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 269. 
Wiesenpieper, Meyer, 'Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 255.—Frisch. t. 16. f. 2. A. 
Tit Lark, Br. Zool. No. 138.—Arct. Zool. 2. p. 395. C.—Albin. t. 43.— 
Will. (Ang.) p. 110.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 3. t. 98.—Lath. Syn. 4. p. 374. 5. 
Walc. Syn. 2. t. 191.—Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Zd. Supp. and App. to Sup. 
—Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 8.—Low’s Fau. Orcad. p. 67.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 
1. p. 185.—Shaw’s Zool. v. 10. p. 540. 
Pipit Lark, Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Shaw’s Zool. v. 10. p. 542. 
Meadow Lark, Lath. Syn. 4. p. 378. 10.—Shaw’s Zool. v. 10. p. 539. 
Provincial, Grey Cheeper. 
This bird is of common occurrence, being very generally 
distributed throughout these kingdoms, inhabiting the moun- 
Haunts. tainous and heathy parts of the country, as well as the mea- 
dows and marshes of the lower districts. It is abundant on 
the elevated tracts of Northumberland, and the barren heaths 
of the Highlands of Scotland, and, as Monracu observes, is 
one of the few birds met with in such exposed situations. 
These birds remain with us through the whole year, but 
many of them change their quarters during the winter, ac- 
cording to the severity of the season. In September and Oc- 
tober, after their autumnal or general moult, they assemble 
in small flocks, resorting to the lower pastures, and not unfre- 
quently to turnip-fields. At this period, the renewed plum- 
age differs considerably from that laid aside, the oil-green of 
the upper parts being of a much brighter tint, and the whole 
of the under parts more deeply tinged with yellow. In this 
Identity of state, the present species is to be recognised as the Pipit Lark, 
this bird considered by some authors as a distinct species. Monracu, 
and the Pi- 
pit Lark of in the first volume of his Ornithological Dictionary, describes 
some au- . . 0 . 
thors it as such under the above title; but afterwards, in his Ap- 
