ROCK TIPIT.
ROCK LARK. SB \ LARK. FIELD I.ARK. DUSKY LARK• SHORE LARK.
SHORE PIPIT. SEA TITLING.
Anthits aquatints, BKCHSTEIN. GOULD. SELBY.
" camptstris, GMELTN. BEWICK.
" rupestris, NILLSON.
' petrosus, FLEMING. JENYNS.
Alauda camfxstru sptmktta, GMBLXN.
" obscura, GMELTN. PENNANT. MONTAGU.
pttmsa, LlNNAAN TRANSACTIONS.
Anlhus—Some small bird. Aquatic us—Aquatic—frequenting watery places.
T/HE Rock Lark is an interesting though very common species, and
another of our true 'ab origine* birds.
'Phis hardy Pipit braves the severe cold of the polar region--, to
which it spreads from the temperate parts of Europe. It is well
known in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Greenland; as likewise in
France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Holland, and other more
temperate parts of the continent.
11 is plentiful on the south coast near Lyme Regis, and on the
eas1 ;il Filey, and so on round the island from Llandudno, to East
Lothian and Caithness. In Orkney and Shetland it is very abundant,
and also is found in the Ferroe Islands.
It appears to give a preference to those parts of the coast which
arc rocky or hilly, but it is also found as well, and that in plenty,
in those places which are of an exactly opposite character.
It is stationary with us throughout the year, but it would seem
to be in some small degree migratory, or rather nun cable; for W.
K. Fisher, Esq., has stated in his 'Natural History of Norfolk,* that
in that county it arrives on the coast in the autumn, generally in
the month of November.
' t h e s e birds do not associate in flocks, but several are often to be
seen in the same immediate neighbourhood. If disturbed it does not