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Title: Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Order Passeres, complete in two volumes
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur G. (Arthur Gardiner), 1844-1925 Grönvold, Henrik, 1858-1940 Frohawk, Frederick William, 1861-1946
Subjects: Birds Birds Passeriformes
Publisher: London : Caxton Pub. Co.
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^; the most difficult ofall to convince of their errors. Gatke says that the Tree-Pipit is one of the few birds which have attemptedto breed in Heligoland; unfortunately the attempt was unsuccessful, for the nestwith four eggs of the type with brown spots like burnt marks, was destroyed bycats; it had been placed against a large tuft of grass in the middle of a largehedged-in grass-plot, about a hundred paces in diameter, which adjoins my garden,and was protected against every possible disturbance by human hand. F,umlv—MO TA CILLID. -E The Meadow-Pipit. Ant/iifs pratensis, LiNN. A CCORDING to Howard Saunders the breeding range of this, the smallestof our Pipits, extends from the North Cape over the greater part ofEurope to the Pyrenees, the northern portions of Italy and the Carpathians, A
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in ^-(■^<-■-;■^^<^:M*<^3;~•J The Meadow-Pipit. 197 and perhaps to some of the elevated regions still further south ; but in the basinof the Mediterranean the bird is principally known as a visitor on migration andin winter. Eastward, it is found in Asia Minor, Palestine, Western Turkestan,and the valley of the Ob in Siberia; while its southern wanderings reach NorthAfrica, from Morocco to Egypt. Throughout Great Britain the Meadow-Pipit, otherwise known as Tit-Lark,Titling, Moss-cheeper, Ling-bird, etc., is resident, common, and generally distributed:in the autumn the numbers of resident birds are temporarily largely added to, byimmense flocks travelling southwards, and it is probable that many of the nativespecimens join these migrating hordes which leave our coasts and are seen nomore until the following IMarch: nevertheless great numbers remain with nsduring the winter. The adult male of this species is olive-brown above, the feathers having d

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