Prrrr. PASSERES. MOTACILLA. ain 
pendix to the Supplement, upon more mature investigation, 
corrects himself, and asserts his conviction of their identity. 
I have omitted no opportunity of becoming satisfied on this 
head, having examined specimens at all seasons of the year, 
and am thoroughly persuaded that the supposed species de- 
scribed as the Pipit Lark, is in reality no more than the 
common Pipit (Z%é Lark of authors) in its renewed or winter 
plumage.—Its usual flight is by short and interrupted jerks; Flight. 
but in the breeding season it differs, the bird then rising by 
a tremulous and rapid motion of the wings to a considerable 
height in the air, and commencing its song when at the great- 
~ est elevation, descending afterwards with motionless wing and 
expanded tail, in a sloping (sometimes almost perpendicular) 
direction to the earth, or to the top of some bush.—It makes Nest, «ec. 
its nest on the ground, under the shelter of a tuft of herbage, 
forming it of dry grass, interwoven with the seed-stalks of 
plants, and lined with finer grasses or with hair. The eggs are 
five or six in number, varying in colour, but the prevailing tint 
a pale brown, thickly covered with brownish purple-red spots 
and specks. Like the wagtails, it runs with celerity, and feeds Food. 
upon flies, worms, and other insects. Its common note-call 
is a short chirp, resembling the word sneek frequently repeat- 
ed. In Northumberland, I have observed that the Cuckoo 
almost invariably deposits her egg in the nest of this bird, 
scarcely a year elapsing without instances of this fact falling 
under my observation. This is perhaps the result of locality , 
being on the border of the open heathy country, where the 
present species is abundant, and where the cuckoos, during 
their cursory residence, chiefly resort, attracted, in all proba- 
bility, by the plentiful supply of lepidopterous larve to be 
found in such situations. 
Prate 49. Fig. 4. Natural size. 
Upper parts dark oil-green, with the centres of the feathers General 
brownish-blach. Under parts yellowish-white, spotted at 
tion. 
with blackish-brown upon the sides of the neck and 
