TREE PIPIT. 
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eggs are purplish brown, thickly marked with 
darker irregular spots, and Mr Selby has re- 
marked, that it is one of the most frequently 
resorted to by the Cuckoo as the protection for 
her solitary treasure. 
A pale streak above each eye ; the head, neck, 
back, and rump, oil green, having the centre of 
each feather umber brown, except on the latter 
part ; the wings and tail are umber brown ; the 
edges of all the feathers of the former grayish 
white, or on the scapulars yellowish oil green ; 
in the latter the outer feathers being white except 
at the base, the second tipped with white ; the 
throat and breast are buff orange, inclining on the 
sides of the latter to oil green, and on the sides 
of the neck and on the breast, having each fea- 
ther marked at the tip with a triangular spot of 
umber brown ; the belly, flanks, and under tail 
coverts are yellowish white, and have the spotting 
continued along the flanks in a more longitudinal 
form, the feathers being dark along each shaft. 
During the winter the whole plumage is of a 
more yellow tint, and varieties of a yellowish or 
grayish white sometimes occur. The female does 
not materially differ. Length from five inches 
and a half to five and three quarters. 
The Tree Pipit — Anthus arboreus — 
Alauda trivialis, Linn. — Field Lark, Tree Lark, 
and Tree Pipit of modern British authors. — This 
is a rao™ decidedly migratory species than the 
