Across the Fields. 



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breast is generally distinctly streaked with dusky brown, and the sides and 

 flanks are often more obscurely marked in the same way. 



AMERICAN PIPIT. 



The nest is placed on the ground, is made of mosses and plant fibres. 

 The eggs, four or five in number, are bluish white, evenly and profusely 

 dotted with reddish brown. They are about four fifths of an inch long, and 

 less than three fifths of an inch wide. 



The Meadow Pipit of Europe is sometimes found in Southern Green- 

 land. It is a smaller bird than the American Pipit, about si.\ inches long. 

 In general color it is not unlike that bird, but is darker and 

 ea ow ipi . ^Q^Q oli\-e brown above and distinctlv streaked ivith black. 



Anthus pratensis (Linn.). 



The lower parts are buffy white, and the breast, sides, and 

 flanks are streaked with dusky brown. Its breeding habits are very similar 

 to those of the American Pipit. 



Sprague's Pipit is a bird about si.\ inches and a half long. It is streaked 



above with dusky and grayish buff. There is much white on the outer tail 



feathers. Below it is light buff or white tinged with buff, 



prague s ipi . ^^,]^j^i., jg clearest on the breast, and streaked in that region 



Anthus spraguen (Aud.). * ^ 



with dusky brown. 

 It is a bird of the interior plain region of North America, breeding from 



