MEADOW PIPIT. 
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than any of the toes, hallux produced, claw 
lengthened, and slightly bent. A. pratensis. 
Cosmopolite. 
The Anthi were formerly associated with the 
larks, with which they had been artificially con- 
sidered as allied by the form and length of the 
hinder claw. The habits of many are so far 
aquatic, that they delight in moist meadow lands, 
marshes, or the vicinity of the sea shore, but they 
do not possess that decided character which marks 
Motacilla as the true aquatic type of the sub- 
family. All our British species wholly or partially 
migrate, and at certain seasons they may be met 
with in flocks. The general colours of the 
plumage are chaste and unobtrusive, consisting 
of shades of oil green above, and on the lower 
surface they are marked and streaked in the 
manner of the Thrushes, and of the American 
genus Seiurus. Several foreign species are so 
closely allied with those of this country, as to be 
with difficulty separated ; but our natives are all 
easily distinguished from each other, representing, 
as it were, the form in the different and peculiar 
localities which they frequent. They breed on 
the ground. The most common and widely dis- 
tributed species is 
The Meadow Pipit — Anthos pkatensis, 
Bechstein. — Alauda pratensis, Will. Ray, Linn. 
— Titlark and Meadow Pipit of modern British 
