. The sportsman's British bird book . t the breast and flanks aredevoid of the spotting so characteristic of pipits ingeneral, while the wing-coverts have broad sandy margins, and thegeneral hue of the upper-parts is tawny, tingedwith grey and streakedon the crown of thehead and the fore partof the back with adarker shade; the lowersurface being whitishwith a tinge of buff onthe breast and differ by the pres-ence of slight darkstreaks on the sides ofthe head. During winter a more conspicu-ously tawny hue per-vades the entire plum-age ; this being alsospecially noticeable in young b
. The sportsman's British bird book . t the breast and flanks aredevoid of the spotting so characteristic of pipits ingeneral, while the wing-coverts have broad sandy margins, and thegeneral hue of the upper-parts is tawny, tingedwith grey and streakedon the crown of thehead and the fore partof the back with adarker shade; the lowersurface being whitishwith a tinge of buff onthe breast and differ by the pres-ence of slight darkstreaks on the sides ofthe head. During winter a more conspicu-ously tawny hue per-vades the entire plum-age ; this being alsospecially noticeable in young birds, which likewise display dusky spots on the head and total length is just over 6 inches. Although not strictly a desert-bird, the tawny pipit is a frequenterof open and dry sandy country rather than moister districts, andnormally ranges in summer from Siberia and Turkestan to central andsouthern Europe, while in winter it migrates to north-western Indiaand northern Africa, occasionally travelling far south in the latter. THE ROWLAND WARD STUDfOS TAVVNV IlIIT. 544 PERCHING BIRDS continent. The stragglers that occasionally visit Great Britain nearlyalways arrive on the south coast, and more especially in , out of a score of individuals recorded up to 1900, all but fourwere taken in that county, mostly in the neighbourhood of the other four, one occurred at Scilly, two in the eastern counties,and one in Yorkshire. Another individual was recorded from Sussexin 1903 ; and it is stated by a writer in the Zoologist for the followingyear that the species may probably be regarded as a regular autumnvisitor to that count). „. The watcr-nipit, although a rare visitor to the British Water-Pipit , , , , , r 1 1 • , ,• ,. , . , .. \ Islands, can scarcely be relused a place m the list. (Anthus spipoletta). „„ . , . , When m the immature or wmter-plumage, m one of which conditions the Ikitish stragglers are probably to be found,the species may be
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