[699-] Red-throated Pipit. Anthus 



PERCHING BIRDS 



Range. — An Old World species; accidental in 

 the Aleutians and Lower California. 



The nesting habits of this bird are like those 

 of the others of the genus. 



TOO. Sprague's Pipit. Anthus spraguei. 



Range. — -Interior of North America, breed- 

 ing from Wyoming north to Saskatchewan. 

 Winters in the plains of Mexico. 



These birds are common on 

 the prairies and breed abund- 

 antly on the plains of the in- 

 terior of northern United 

 States and Manitoba. They 

 have a flight song which is 



Grayish white said to be fully equal to that 



of the famous European Skylark. They nest on 



the ground under tufts of grass or up-turned 



sods, lining the hollow with fine grasses; theii 



three or four eggs are gravis]! white, finely specked with grayish black or pur- 



plish. Size .85 x .60. Data. — Crescent Lake, Canada. Nest of fine dried 



grasses, built in the ground at the side of a sod. 



hrasher 



DIPPERS. Family CINCLID^E 



701. Dipper. Cinclus mexicanus unicolor. 



Uange — Mountains of western North America from Alaska to Central America. 



These short-tailed, grayish colored birds arc among the strangesl of feathen I 

 creatures; they frequent the sides of mountain streams where they teed upon 

 aquatic insects and small fish. Although they do Dot have webbed feet, 

 swim on or under water with the greatest of ease and rapidity, using their 

 wings as paddles. They have a thrush-like 1 > i 1 1 and the teetering habits of the 

 Sandpiper, and they are said to be one of the sweetest of songsters. They nesl 

 among the rocks along the banks of swiftly flowing streams, and sometimes 

 beneath falls; the nests are large round structures of green moss, lined with 

 fine grass and with the entrance on the side. 'The eggs arc pure white, four or 

 rive in number, and laid during May or .June, si/e L.00 x .7<i. 



WRENS, THRASHERS, ETC. Family TROGLODYTID K 



702. Sage Thrasher. Oreoscoptes montanus. 



Range. Plains and valley- of western Dnited Stati 3, easl of the Sierra v 

 adas, i rom Montana to Mexico. 



This pecie is abundanl in the 3age regions of the w< 

 nesting on the ground or at low elevations in -arc ( >r oiin: "C "* '• 



1 1 1 1 hes. Their nests are made of twigs, rootlets and bark 

 -nip., lined with fine rootlets; the three or four eggs are a 

 handsome greenish blue, brightly -putted with reddish brown 

 and gray. Size .95 \ .70. Data. Sail Lake Co., Utah, Maj 

 11. L900. Nesl placed In a are bush; made of twigs of the 

 same and lined with bark trips. Collector, w. II. Parkei i 



I ( Taudall collect Ion. i 



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