BIRDS SEEN IN SWITZERLAND. 13 



high woods apparently. It was in song in the Briinig woods at 

 the top of the pass. I saw one creeping about the rocks in the 

 woods near Holefluh, and another in the bushes at the top of 

 Pfaffenwand, just by the Triibsee Hotel. 



Motacilla alba, White Wagtail. — Observed from the train by 

 the Birs at Minister, in the Jura ; at Bienne ; about the house- 

 roofs in Bern ; at Thun ; the house-roofs in Interlaken and 

 Meiringen ; young and old by the Aare in Meiringen, at Engel- 

 berg (3400 ft.), but not higher, and many in the valley between 

 Wolfenschiessen and Stansstad, and at the latter place. Some 

 observations on the plumage and habits of this species will be 

 found in ' The Naturalist' for 1891. 



M. melanope, Grey Wagtail. — I saw one in the Suze, near 

 Sonceboz (2150 ft.), in the Jura, and two others near Reuchenethe, 

 from the train. At Meiringen I observed the adults on the banks 

 of the Aare, and in the Gorge of the Aare, also young on the 

 wing on the 22nd June. One observed in the Genthal, but the 

 pair which F. generally found breeding at the mouth of the 

 Enstlen See were absent ; perhaps the long hard winter and late 

 spring may account for this. There was a pair by the ornamental 

 lake in the garden of the Hotel Titlis at Engelberg, and I saw a 

 bird of this species by the water below the Lion at Lucerne. 



Anthus trivialis, Tree Pipit. — Observed at Interlaken ; about 

 the Aipbach Hotel, Meiringen, and all up the lower pastures of 

 the Hasleberg, where there were trees up to close to the pines 

 (about 4500 ft.). Singing at edge of pines at the foot of the 

 Pfaffenwand on the Gerschin Alp (about 4000 ft.). Fairly common 

 on the wooded edge of the valley about Stanz. 



A. campestris, Tawny Pipit. — When walking along the straight 

 hedgeless roads which intersect the open tract of drained land 

 between Stansstad and Stanz on a blazing hot morning, 28th June, 

 my attention was drawn to a Pipit which was new to me. Its 

 song had some of the notes of, but was inferior to, the Tree 

 Pipit's. It rose from the ground and sang as it returned to it. 

 The ground there consists of hay- meadows, in which the grass 

 was short (perhaps a second crop), and is much drier than that 

 lying nearer the Alpnach branch of the lake. I could not get 

 near this bird from the nature of the intervening ground, but 

 afterwards met with another pair, whose anxiet}*- for a nest of 

 young they evidently had near at hand brought them close to me. 

 They were of this species. The Tawny Pipit is a good-sized 



