TAWNY PIPIT. 
ITT 
crevices of rocks. It lays four to six eggs, wliich. are 
dirty white, greyish, or greenish, covered with small 
spots more or less abundant, greyish russet brown, or 
russet green, and sometimes finely spotted with greenish 
or brown red. It prefers to live in uncultivated and 
stony or dry hilly places, covered with heath and thyme. 
It runs quickly, and with grace, and very rarely perches 
upon large trees. Its cry is very like that of the Short- 
toed Lark. It lives principally on neuropterous insects.” 
The male in breeding plumage has all the upper parts 
of a light russet brown; wings and two upper tail 
feathers darker; the edge of till the upper feathers more 
or less bordered with light grey; six middle tail feathers 
deep brown, the two lateral quills on each side white, 
with a longitudinal patch of black brown on the inner 
webs; a few dusky feathers form a small moustache 
beneath the eyes and auditory orifices. All the lower 
parts of the body bluish white, lighter at the lower 
part of abdomen and under tail coverts; beak blackish 
brown above, yellowish below; tarsi and feet yellow; 
iris brown. 
The females are like the males in all seasons, but 
the colour is lighter, and they are somewhat mottled 
about the crop. 
The young before the first moult are, according to 
Degland, of a browner plumage above, with the feathers 
bordered with clear russet; crop and flanks marked 
with a greater number of more elongated spots. 
My figure is a male in the breeding plumage, shot 
by Mr. Tristram, at Kif Laki, April 22nd., 185T, The 
egg from Avhich my figure is taken was also kindly 
sent me by the same gentleman, who remarks, “This 
egg is very variable, though not so much so as that of 
B. arhoreus. Some of my specimens approach those of 
