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Identifier: birdsofbritain00bonh (find matches)
Title: Birds of Britain
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Bonhote, J. Lewis (John Lewis), 1875-1922 Dresser, Henry Eeles, 1838-1915
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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the sea-shore, until with favourable weather they passon to warmer and more congenial climes. The male above is of a uniform bright greenish yellow,with a yellow eye stripe; under parts bright lemon yellow.Females and young are similar but duller, the latter some-times showing in autumn some dark spots on the breast.Length 6*25 in.; wing 315 in. This bird is distributed in suitable localities throughoutEngland, with the exception of the extreme south-west.In Wales it is chiefly seen on migration, and in Ireland it isonly found nesting in a few places. In Scotland it doesnot nest north of Perthshire, and to the north of the GreatGlen it is only a rare straggler. Abroad it is confined toNorth-west France and the Iberian peninsula, wanderingin winter to West Africa. THE TREE PIPIT Anthus trivialis (Linnaeus) Arriving in April with our other summer visitors, theTree Pipit may be found fairly commonly throughout 92 TREE PIPIT A nth us trivial is (left) MEADOW PlPn Anthus pratensis (right)
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The Tree Pipit England and Scotland, but becomes scarcer in the north.It has not yet been known to visit Ireland. It may beheard singing its pretty little song near the outskirts ofwoods, or in fields bordered by trees. This is usually utteredon the wing when, having sprung some distance into the air,it descends with fluttering wings and open tail to the sameperch on the top of the tree from which it started. Most ofits food is sought on the ground, and consists almost entirelyof insects. The nest is placed in the middle of a field, ormore preferably in some bank or railway cutting, and is com-posed of roots and bents with a little moss and lined with finerbents and hair. The eggs are generally six in number andvary considerably, the commonest variety being greenishwhite with bold blurred markings of dark brown at theirlarger end, another variety resembles this in markings butis suffused with reddish, while a third variety is uniformlyand closely mottled with reddish brown. In appeara

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