MEADOW-PIPIT— TREE-PIPIT. 
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Genus — Anthus. 
49. Anthus pratensis, Meadow-Pipit. 
Tit-lark. 
A common resident. 
Found in all suitable parts of the county and Isle 
of Wight. In the New Forest it is a characteristic bird, 
because of the presence of large tracts of uncultivated 
moorland. 
Wise calls it the " butty lark," that is, " companion 
bird," of the New Forest ; so called because it is often 
seen pursuing the cuckoo, which the peasant takes to be 
a sign of attachment instead of anger. 
We have a record of a " titlark " observed at the 
Warner Light Vessel on May 31st, 1902, at 9 a.m., which 
rested on the vessel, and then flew off north-west. 
50. Anthus trivialis. Tree-Pipit. 
A summer visitor. 
It arrives in April — not very early in the month — 
and generally departs towards the end of September. 
It is found in all parts of the county and Isle of 
Wight, but is not nearly so plentiful anywhere as the last 
species. 
Gilbert White designated both the tree-pipit and 
meadow-pipit as " titlark," and apparently confused the 
two species ^ and thus omitted the tree-pipit from the 
list of summer migrants in the sixteenth letter to Pennant. 
' Letter xxxix. to Pennant. Selborne. November 9th, 1773. 
