516 TREE PIPIT. 
B. Labyrintli reversed — a, the back of the tympanum — c, the exterior 
orca — 5, the interior orca, 
C. Trachea of Anas glacialis — a, the opening of the base covered by 
a transparent membrane — the tympanum of the labyrinth — c, 
the hvonchice, 
D. Labyrinth of do. reversed, shewing the insertion of the bronchice. 
E. Labyrinth of the Summer Duck, Anas sponsa, shewing the front of 
the ampulla. The bird to which this belongs is not properly 
British, but has been introduced by way of exemplification as the 
first time of its being figured. 
TREE CREEPER or CLIMBER. — A name for the Creeper. 
TREE LARK. — A name for the Tree Pipit. 
TREE PIPIT {Anthus arhoreus, Bechstein.) 
Anthus arboreus, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 3. p. 706. t. 36. f. 1. — Alauda trivialis, 
Linn. Syst. I. p. 288. 5. — Gmel. Syst. I. p. 796. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 493. 6, 
but not the synonimes. — Alauda minor, Ib. 2. p, 494. sp. 8. — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 
793 Pipit des Buissons, Temm. Man. d’Orn. I. p. 271. — L’Alouette Pipi, 
Gerard. Tab, Elem. 1. p. 246. — Buff. pi. Enl. 660. f. I. the male. — Baumpie- 
per, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 254. B. — Frisch, t. 16. f. 1. B. — Field Lark, 
Br. Zool. 5. 139 Arct. Zool. 2. p. 395. D. — Lewin’s Br. Birds, 3. t. 92. — 
Lath. Syn. 4. p. 375. 6. — Mont. Orn. Diet. — lb. Supp.— TEa/c. Syn. 2. p. 192. 
— Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. p. 180 Lesser Field Lark, Will. (Angl.) p. 207. — 
Lesser Crested Lark, Lath. Syn. 4. p. 391. 24. — The Lesser Field Lark, or Tree 
Lark, Bewick’s Supp. p. t. 28. — The Grasshopper Lark, Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. 
p. 181. but confounding with it the habits and description of the Grasshopper 
Warbler, as noted by White in his Hist. Selb Field Titling, Flem. Br. Anim. 
p. 75. — Tree Pipit, Selby, pi. 49. fig. 5. p. 218.* 
Provincial. — Short-heeled Field Lark, and Meadow Lark. 
The length of this species is six inches and a half; weight five 
drams, forty -five grains. Bill dusky above, whitish beneath ; irides 
hazel ; the colour of the plumage on the upper parts is a light yel- 
lowish brown, the middle of each feather dusky brown ; the wing 
coverts tipped whitish ; rump plain light brown ; throat and breast 
ochraceous yellow, the latter streaked with black ; belly yellowish 
white ; the tail feathers are somewhat pointed ; the exterior one half 
white ; the next slightly tipped the same ; the legs yellowish-brown ; 
claws horn-colour ; hind claws short and hooked. 
No bird has been more confounded than this species of lark. It 
visits this country in the spring, but is rarely seen till the beginning of 
May, and is most frequently mistaken for the meadow pipit, to which 
it bears great resemblance in plumage and habits ; but as a special mark 
of distinction, the base of the bill in this is broader, and the hind claw 
is much shorter and more hooked ; the throat and breast are also much 
more inclined to yellow than the meadow pipit is found to be in the 
