. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. 144 ROCK-PIPIT. the Land's End. A woodcut of this form is given below. Our dull-goloured race is found in the Channel Islands and along the northern and western shores of France; while it is represented by the Scandinavian form to the eastward and in the Baltic. The nest, generally in a clump of sea-pink, a grassy bank, or a crevice of the rocks on the sea-shore, is made of dry grasses and sometimes sea-tang ; the 4-5 eggs are usually greenish-grey mottled with olive-brown, but I have seen reddish ones, like those of a Tree-Pipit: measurements &
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. 144 ROCK-PIPIT. the Land's End. A woodcut of this form is given below. Our dull-goloured race is found in the Channel Islands and along the northern and western shores of France; while it is represented by the Scandinavian form to the eastward and in the Baltic. The nest, generally in a clump of sea-pink, a grassy bank, or a crevice of the rocks on the sea-shore, is made of dry grasses and sometimes sea-tang ; the 4-5 eggs are usually greenish-grey mottled with olive-brown, but I have seen reddish ones, like those of a Tree-Pipit: measurements "8' by "6 in. Two broods are produced in the season. The food consists of marine insects, flies, small molluscs and crustaceans, for which the bird may be seen searching among the heaps of sea-weed on the shore at low water. The adult is olive-brown with darker streaks above; the under parts being dull ochreous-olive streaked with brown on the breast. At its best the plumage is much like that of the Water-Pipit in winter, but more olive, and the exterior tail-feathers have smoke- coloured outer webs, so that the under side of the tail seems nearly uniform brown. The young are more striated. Length 6-25 in.; wing 3-5 Pycnongtid*.—An example of the South-African Bulbul or " Gold-vented Thrush," Pycnonotus capensis, was shot near Water- ford, Ireland, in January 1838, and skinned by the late Dr. R. Birkett. Considering the natural habitat of the bird, and the time of year, it is only reasonable to suppose that it had escaped from Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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