ROCK-PIPIT. 
ANTIIUS OBSCURUS. 
The name of Rock-Pipit is by no means misapplied. Every part of Great Bntam, from north to south as well 
as the adjacent islands, where the coast-line is formed by rooks or cliffs, appears to be requeued by this 
species In many of these localities the bird may be found as a resident. When observed where the shores 
are flat or at inland waters, its visits are usually only short, and made during autumn winter, or early spring 
At any season, with the exception of the height of summer, I have occasionally observed a few of these 
Pipits along the flat portions of the Sussex coast, from Pagham to Brighton. The muddy edges of he pools 
of brackish water inside the shingle-banks are their favourite haunts. The chalk cliffs between Brighton and 
Eastbourne and in the neighbourhood of Pairlight near Hastings, are resorted to during the breeding-seaso , 
though those that nest in these localities are by no means so thickly dispersed throughout the range as over 
many parts of the more northern coast-, ine. Pevensey Marsh, Winchelsea Level, and (across 
Romney Marsh are each and all visited by this species at the same seasons as the fiat districts to the w s 
of Brighton. It is seldom that the birds are observed at the inland parts of these marshes the ^P**"*^ 
(minute worms and small insects) that attracts them appearing to inhabit only those pool that are si y 
!Z"d by salt. On the Suffolk coast and marshes, and also in Norfolk, I have only recognised this 
species as a visitor. Breydon Wall and tlie grassy edges of the mudflats (locally known as t ic i one cs) ai 
•U « H* a. bird i. ™a» .b»..d. I M JtS 
« the^e watched flitting round the shores of the broad, alighting 
inland that I have ever observed t L L p . . , the walls round Breydon, and also 
“October 16, 1873. Noticed soon after daybreak several ° C ^ the sca . bca ch just before dark.” 
in the afternoon on the South Denes. Hundreds of Lar s wer . ° M crossed tho Nort h g e a, as it 
It is possible, I imagine, that .those .observed on the thc diffs and among the rocks on the 
was seldom they frequented these dry sand . ^ ^ on seTeral 0 f the larger of the Pern 
Yorkshire coast, both north and soutl y ,Wached rocks I have seen their nests 
Islands off the coast of Northumberland, and also on a few of “ d ^ ^ of East Lothian , 
close to the old lighthouse and the surrounding buildings At Dunbm^ rf ^ town . They 
