WAGTAILS AND PIPITS. 



a. Wagtails. Motacilla. 



Tail, quite long ; colors, black, white, and gray, some- 

 times yellow beneath. 



1. WHITE WAGTAIL, M. ALBA. 7.00; forehead, sides 

 of neck, beneath, and outer tail feathers, white ; crown, hind 

 neck, and throat, black; back, ashy. Breeds in Europe; ac- 

 cidental in Greenland. 



b. Pipits. Anthus. 



Tail, not as long; brown above; whitish below, streaked 

 with brown. 



1. AMEBICAN PIPIT, A. PENNSYLVANICUS. 6.50; 

 grayish-olive above, indistinctly streaked with darker; be- 

 neath, cinnamon-buff; streaks on breast and sides, broad and 

 numerous, fig. 339 ; outer tail feathers, nearly white. Breeds 



Fig. 339. 



from Newfoundland and 

 mountains of Colorado 

 northward; winters from 

 the Carolinas southward 

 to M e x i c o . Common 

 during migration, espec- 

 ially near the coast ; 

 south in Sep. and Oct. ; 

 north in May. Frequents 

 open fields and marshes, 



Call, a low, double note. Flight, 



CC, K, b, 1. 1-3. 

 and beaches. Gregarious, 

 undulating and erratic. 



2. MEADOW PIPIT, A. PKATENSIS. Differs from 1 in 

 being greenish above and below and in being more heavily 

 streaked above. Europe ; accidental in Greenland. 



3, SPKAGUE'S PIPIT, A. BPKAGU KIT Smaller than 1 ; 

 bill, shorter; paler beneath with narrow streakings, very few 

 on sides; light edgings to feathers above paler. Breeds on 

 the interior plains of N. A. from eastern Montana north in- 

 to Manitoba; winters in Tex., Mexico, and southern La. ; 

 rare in S. C. Flight song, a clear, harmonious melody, given 

 as the bird hovers high in air. 



