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but when harm threatens the cries and calls of his mate speedily 

 bring him to take his share of the trouble. I have seen a male 

 Redstart feed the young after they had left the nest and very 

 rarely indeed carry food to them when they were nearly ready 

 to leave. The incubation period is sometimes only twelve 

 days, though I have known it to take fourteen for the eggs to 

 hatch. The young leave the nest in twelve to fourteen days 

 as a rule. Only one brood is reared in a season with us, the 

 eggs being deposited from as early as June second to as late 

 exceptionally as the thirtieth. 



Genus ANTHUS Bechstein. 

 Subgenus ANTHUS. 



697. Anthus pensilvanicus (Lath.). American Pipit; 

 American Titlark; Brown Lark; Louisiana Lark; Wagtail. 



Plumage of adults : wings fuscous, the coverts tipped with buffy whitish ; 

 above in general dark brownish gray ; tail fuscous, the two outer tail feath- 

 ers white tipped ; buffy white line over eye ; below buffy whitish, streaked 

 with clove brown or fuscous on breast and sides. Immature plumage : above 

 hair brown, streaked with black and edged with wood brown ; otherwise 

 very similar to adults. Wing 3.45 ; tail 2.70. 



Geog. Dist- — North America, breeding in the higher Rocky Mountains and 

 in Labrador and other subarctic regions ; wintering in the Gulf States, Mex- 

 ico and Central America. 



County Records. — Androscoggin; fall migrant, (Walter, B. A. Co. p. 6). 

 Aroostook; fall migrant at least, (Knight). Cumberland; irregularly abun- 

 dant in the inland towns in autumn, a flock of two dozen was observed at 

 Westbrook, May 15, 1889, (Norton). Franklin ; common migrant, irregular, 

 (Sweet). Hancock ; irregular, (Mrs. W. H. Gardner). Knox ; migrant, (Rack- 

 liff). Oxford; was common at Wilson's Mills in September and October, 

 1879, (Mead). Penobscot; common some falls, rare others, irregular or 

 sporadic, (Knight). Piscataquis; common migrant, (Homer). Sagadahoc; 

 took my first specimen December 13, 1901, (Spinney). Somerset ; one of the 

 most regular and abundant of fall migrants in this locality, (Morrell, Me. Sp. 

 Nov. 1897, p. 21). Waldo; irregular fall migrant, (Knight). Washington; 

 common migrant, (Boardman). 



Mr. Brown in his Birds of Portland records the species as 

 occurring there from the middle of September, the thirteenth 



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