What is "anthus obscurus"

Pipit \Pip"it\, n. [So named from its call note.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to Anthus and allied genera, of the family Motacillid[ae]. They strongly resemble the true larks in habits, colors, and the great length of the hind claw. They are, therefore, often called titlarks, and pipit larks.

Note: The meadow pipit ( Anthus pratensis); the tree pipit, or tree lark ( Anthus trivialis); and the rock pipit, or sea lark ( Anthus obscurus) are well-known European species. The common American pipit, or brown lark, is Anthus Pensilvanicus. The Western species ( Anthus Spraguei) is called the American skylark, on account of its musical powers.

Sea lark \Sea" lark`\ (Zo["o]l.)

1. The rock pipit ( Anthus obscurus).

2. Any one of several small sandpipers and plovers, as the ringed plover, the turnstone, the dunlin, and the sanderling.

Shore \Shore\, n. [OE. schore, AS. score, probably fr. scieran, and so meaning properly, that which is shorn off, edge; akin to OD. schoore, schoor. See Shear, v. t.] The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.

Michael Cassio, Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello, Is come shore.
--Shak.

The fruitful shore of muddy Nile.
--Spenser.

In shore, near the shore.
--Marryat.

On shore. See under On.

Shore birds (Zo["o]l.), a collective name for the various limicoline birds found on the seashore.

Shore crab (Zo["o]l.), any crab found on the beaches, or between tides, especially any one of various species of grapsoid crabs, as Heterograpsus nudus of California.

Shore lark (Zo["o]l.), a small American lark ( Otocoris alpestris) found in winter, both on the seacoast and on the Western plains. Its upper parts are varied with dark brown and light brown. It has a yellow throat, yellow local streaks, a black crescent on its breast, a black streak below each eye, and two small black erectile ear tufts. Called also horned lark.

Shore plover (Zo["o]l.), a large-billed Australian plover ( Esacus magnirostris). It lives on the seashore, and feeds on crustaceans, etc.

Shore teetan (Zo["o]l.), the rock pipit ( Anthus obscurus). [Prov. Eng.]