. Rural bird life : being essays on ornithology with instructions for preserving objects relating to that science . e Pipit is oneof the insectivorous or soft-billed birds most commonlyfound in the corn-fields, and by exercising a little cautionyou may see him shelling out the wheat with as muchdexterity as the well-known Sparrow. Probably thesebirds subsist on the wheat as a fruit, and would not touchit when dry and hard, like true graminivorous birds ; forthe insectivorous birds so feeding on it are all known as* fruit eaters. The Tree Pipit moults very early in the season, as soonas the you
. Rural bird life : being essays on ornithology with instructions for preserving objects relating to that science . e Pipit is oneof the insectivorous or soft-billed birds most commonlyfound in the corn-fields, and by exercising a little cautionyou may see him shelling out the wheat with as muchdexterity as the well-known Sparrow. Probably thesebirds subsist on the wheat as a fruit, and would not touchit when dry and hard, like true graminivorous birds ; forthe insectivorous birds so feeding on it are all known as* fruit eaters. The Tree Pipit moults very early in the season, as soonas the young are fully fledged. They then, both maleand female, are for the most part found on the , when once the Tree Pipit has lost his notes,which he does by the middle of July, he is seldom seenon the trees, and never observed to soar in the gracefulflights peculiar to the spring and summer months. Themoulting season passed, the Tree Pipits tarry but for ashort time, and then wing their way southwards, thusmaking room for the Meadow Pipits, which come downfrom their moorland haunts to spend the THE MEADOW PIPIT. This pleasing active little songster would be far moreappropriately named the Moor Pipit, for it is amidsttheir barren solitudes by far the greater number of themdelight to find a home in the summer months, onlybeing found on the lower and more cultivated lands ata time when the wintry blasts howl dismally over theirsummer haunts. As the observer wanders over the wildest moors,where the Red Grouse skims before him, and the RingOusel, a true bird of the wild, pipes his defiant song—where the Curlew and the Snipe rise in rapid flight fromthe margins of the marshy pools, and the Lapwing reelsand tumbles in the air, as though cautioning the hardyobserver to beware how he invades her upland haunt,—he ofttimes hears a feeble pccp-pcep, and on looking roundsees an olive-coloured little bird sitting quietly on aneighbouring rock or heather tuft, eyeing him
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