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and wades into the shallow streams in quest of aquatic insects. It 

 sings with a great deal of spirit, possessing a loud, sweet and clear 

 voice. The difference in size, as well as in shades of plumage, 

 and color of the legs, (those parts in some being bright yellow) 

 has induced some persons to suppose that they were two species 

 confounded into one. Mr. Audubon considers them varieties. 



GENUS ANTHUS — BECHST. 

 PIPIT. 



[Bill of moderate length, slender, as broad as high at the base, straight, com- 

 pressed toward the end, slightly notched at tip : head rather small, neck short ; 

 body rather slender; wings long; tail rather long, emarginate ; tarsi much 

 compressed, slender ; toes slender ; claws arched, that of the hind toe long.] 



ANTHUS LUDOVICIANUS— LICHENSTEIN. 



AMERICAN PIPIT. 



Brown Lurk, Alaisda rufa, Wils. Amer. Orn. 

 Anlhus spinoletta, Bonap. Svn. 

 Brown Titlark, Aud. Orn. B:og. 



Specific Character — Bill slender ; tail black, larger portion of the 

 outer feather, and a spot toward the end of the next, white. Adult 

 with the upper parts brownish-olive, touched with dusky; a whitish 

 spot over the eye ; secondary and smaller coverts tipped with dull 

 white, the next with a white spot on the inner web toward the end 

 next to the shaft ; throat white ; sides of the neck, the breast, and 

 sides of the body, marked with dusky spots, which are more numer- 

 ous on the fore part of the breast, and more rounded ; those on the 

 sides of the body are longer, and confined to the central parts of 

 the feathers; rest of the lower parts brownish- white. Length six 

 inches, wing three and a half. 



