TREE PIPIT. 



lofty), he begins his song ; and while uttering it, 

 he slides down the air with expanded wings, and 

 tail erected and spread, till he again reaches the 

 tree, where he pauses a little, and then descends 

 to the ground in the same manner.* 



We have found this bird (says Montagu) as 

 far west as Devonshire, but rarely in Cornwall ; 

 also in the westernmost parts of South Wales, and 

 in most of the southern parts of England ; but 

 nowhere so plentiful as in the north of Wiltshire. 



* Mudie's British Birds. 



