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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 Moracitiipar. Wagtails. 
ANTHUS RUBESCENS (Tunstall). Pipit. 
Fairly common migrant 
The fall migration of Pipits is more noticeable than the ver- 
nal passage, sinee 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 10 
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 sPRAGUEI (Audubon). Sprague’s Pipit. 
are 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 Mimipar. Thrashers, Mockingbirds, ete. 
Mimus poLyeLorros potyeiorros (Linn.). Mockingbird. , 
Fairly common summer resident; somewhat rare and irregular win- 
ter resi 
As a winter resident the Mockingbird is irregular or has 
