. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . ut. The adult male in summer has the head, nape, and ear-coverts, bluish-grey, and a narrow line of a darker tint pro-ceeds from the eye to the beak. Above the eye, and belowthe ear-coverts, pass two narrow white lines, proceeding fromthe bases of the upper and lower mandible. The back, sca-pulars, and upper tail-coverts, are pure olive; the tail-feathersdusky, except the two outer on each side, which are white ;the wings are dusky, with broad yellowish-white borders uponthe secondaries, tertials, and wing-coverts. In autumn theunder
. Coloured illustrations of British birds, and their eggs . ut. The adult male in summer has the head, nape, and ear-coverts, bluish-grey, and a narrow line of a darker tint pro-ceeds from the eye to the beak. Above the eye, and belowthe ear-coverts, pass two narrow white lines, proceeding fromthe bases of the upper and lower mandible. The back, sca-pulars, and upper tail-coverts, are pure olive; the tail-feathersdusky, except the two outer on each side, which are white ;the wings are dusky, with broad yellowish-white borders uponthe secondaries, tertials, and wing-coverts. In autumn theunder parts of the body are paler in colour. The female in summer has nearly the same distribution ofcolours as the male, but they are less pure and full. Inautumn the grey head of the female is clouded with olive,and the throat inclining to buff; in this state it is represent-ed in the upper figure of Plate 89 ; and the male in fulladult summer-plumage is represented in the lower young male of the year is much like the adult female inautumn. PI. ROCK PIPIT. 229 INSESSORES. DENTIROSTRES. ANTHIDM. PLATE XC. ROCK aquaticus. (Selby.) The Pipits, a small group next to be described, and con-sisting but of four species belonging to this country, arenearly allied in habits, and manners, to the wagtails; feedingupon the same kinds of food, and living, like them, chiefly insituations of an open character, such as fields, and plains, andthe gravelly shores of rivers. They are also closely allied tothe larks, and resemble these latter much in form and plu-mage, in the construction and position of their nests, and inthe character of their eggs : they appear, therefore, properlyplaced between the two. The generic distinctions, in point ofform, between the wagtails and the pipits are slight, exceptin the tail, which in the wagtails is long and even at theend, and in the pipits shorter and forked. The Rock Pipit is in this country exclusively a maritimebird, and such it
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