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Identifier: britainsbirdsthe00thom (find matches)
Title: Britain's birds and their nests
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Thomson, Arthur Landsborough, Sir, 1890- Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur), 1861-1933 Rankin, George
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Nests
Publisher: London : W. & R. Chambers
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ominent situations. But it is a ground-nesting bird likethe other members of the family. The Tree-Pipit has perhaps the best right to be con-sidered as the type of its genus; but we have followedom usual custom in giving priority to the wider spread andmore generally familiar Meadow-Pipit. For the Tree-Pipithas a much more restricted British range. For one thing,it is another of those species which are absent from theIrish avifauna, although common in Great Britain; thereis not a single reliable record of the Tree-Pipit occurringin Ireland, even as a mere wanderer. From the Scottishisles the species is also absent, except as an uncommonmigrant, and it is very scarce and local on the northernpart of the mainland. But from central Scotland south-wards it is common in the wooded districts of GreatBritain during the summer months. For it is only asummer visitor to om- area; mid-April and September arethe times of the chief migiations. As already stated, the Tree-Pipit nests on the ground.
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Plate loo. TREE-PI P IT—y^;////;/-? trivialis. Length, 6 in. ; wing, 3-3 in. (PasSERES : Motaciriid;e.)2 J 288

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