A songbird that lives mainly on the ground in open country; has streaky brown plumage.
1 The scene of the tragedy was the nest of a pipit, or titlark , on the ground beneath a heather-bush.
2 The American pipit, or titlark , has a peculiar wavering flight when, after being flushed, it reluctantly leaves the ground.
3 The melody of singing birds ranks as follows: The nightingale first, then the linnet, titlark , sky lark and wood lark.
4 From this and the season, and the size and color of the bird, I knew he had seen the pipit or titlark .
5 Blackbirds catch them on the ground, as do the killdeer, titlark , meadow lark, and others; while orioles hunt for them on the bolls.
6 Near me a titlark every few minutes rose from the sward, and spreading his wings came down aslant, singing with all his might.
7 It is new to me that titlarks in cages sing in the night; perhaps only caged birds do so.
8 The birds most common along the coast at present are the stone-chatters, whin-chats, buntings, linnets, some few wheatears, titlarks , etc.
9 American Pipit, or Titlark
10 These two larks must not be confused with the meadow larks and titlarks , which belong to the blackbird and pipit families respectively.
11 That the titlarks are singing I know, but not within hearing from here; a dove, though, is audible, and a chiffchaff has twice passed.
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