PANAMA PIPIT 



ground instead of hopping. The pipits com- 

 prise species with streaked, sparrowlike plum- 

 age that frequent open places and except in 

 the breeding season are often found in flocks. 

 Though their voices are not loud, some of 

 them are good songsters, giving their song 

 while hovering in the air like larks. The 

 family is more characteristic of temperate 

 than of tropical regions and is better repre- 

 sented in the Old World than in America. 



i. Anthus parvus Lawrence 

 Panama Pipit 



Sexes alike. Length, 1 1 1 mm. (4.40 in.) ; tail, 

 43 mm. (1.70 in.). Streaked above, wood brown 



FIG. 91. Anthus parvus 

 (Nat. Size) 



and dusky prevailing; pale buff below distinctly 

 striped with brown on chest and sides; tail 

 blackish, with outer feathers white and con- 

 spicuous in flight. 



A small, slender-billed bird with streaked, 

 sparrow-like plumage, and vacillating flight, 

 which walks and runs on the ground in open 

 places. I have seen it on the Panama golf links 

 and elsewhere in the sabanas. 

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