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boulevards. During the breeding season they resort to damp 

 woods and timbered creek bottoms and are then fairly common 

 in Swope Park, the upper Blue Valley, the Missouri bottoms and 

 bluffs and many other like places. Three to four eggs are laid 

 in early June. 



Family MOTACILLIDAE. Wagtails. 



ANTIIUS RUBESCENS (Tunstall). Pipit. 

 Fairly common migrant. 



The fall migration of Pipits is more noticeable than the ver- 

 nal passage, since the flocks are much larger and remain in one 

 place for a longer period. They arrive from the north in flocks 

 of often several hundreds during early October (Sept. 30. 1897, 

 earliest) and are present in some years till November 22 (1914). 

 The greatest numbers are present from the 13th to 30th of 

 October. 



Pipits frequent bottom clearings, grass and alfalfa fields and 

 open spaces at the edges of willow thickets where the ground 

 vegetation is scant. They also feed about the banks of ponds 

 and in barnyards and burnt-over places on the prairie regions. 

 At one farm pond where the surrounding spaces are favorable 

 feeding grounds, a flock of about two hundred Pipits arrived 

 on October 20, 1916, and remained until November 10th. 



The spring migration begins about March 29th and is over 

 by May 2nd (1915, latest date). 



Pipits may be looked for in the open districts of the Mis- 

 souri bottoms and in favorable places on the prairie regions. 

 They have been observed in the neighborhood of Swope Park 

 and about Dodson. 



ANTHUS SPBAGUEI (Audubon). Sprague's Pipit. 

 Rare migrant. 



Only two known specimens of this form have been taken. The 

 Sprague 's Pipit is given by Bunker as a rare migrant in eastern 

 Kansas. It may occur regularly in large flocks of the preceding 

 species. 



Family MIMIDAE. Thrashers, Mockingbirds, etc. 



MIMUS POLYGLOTTOS POLYGLOTTOS (Linn.). Mockingbird. 



Fairly common summer resident; somewhat rare and irregular win- 

 ter resident. 



As a winter resident the Mockingbird is irregular or has 



