20 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Anthus palustris Breum, Lehrb., 1823, 244; Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 334. 



Anthus stagnatilis BBXHii, Vog. Deutschl., 1831. 



Anthus danicus Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831. 



Anthus pratorum Bebhm, Vog. Deutschl. , 1831. 



Anthus aUiceps Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831. 



Anthus tenuirostris Beehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831. 



Anthus musicus Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831. 



Anthus viresceus Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831. 



Anthus licktensteini Brebm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831. 



Anthus desertorum Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831. 



Anthus montanellus Brehm, Vog. Deutschl., 1831. 



Anthus tristis Bailly, M6m. Soc. d'Emul. Abbeville, 1833, 14. 



Anthus communis Blyth, ed. White's Nat. Hist. Selbourne, 1850, 261. 



Anthus intermedius Syeveetsov, Ibis, 1876, 179. 



ANTHUS SPRAGUEII (Audubon). 

 SPRAGTIE'S PIPIT. 



Admits {sexes alike) in spring."— Aho\e. pale buffy grayish brown 

 broadly streaked with dusky, the streaks broadest on back, narrowest 

 on hindneck; wings and tail dusky with pale bufly grayish brown 

 edgings, the middle and greater wing-coverts margined terminally 

 with the same, the outermost primary edged with white; outermost 

 rectrix white, with basal half, or more, of inner portion of inner web 

 dusky grayish; next rectrix with approximately the outer half white, 

 the inner half grayish dusky; sides of head, including superciliary 

 stripe and lores, and entire under parts dull buffy white, becoming 

 more or less pronouncedly brownish bufly on chest, sides and flanks, 

 the chest narrowly streaked with blackish, the sides of breast more 

 broadly but less distinctly streaked with grayish brown; axillars and 

 under wing-coverts white; maxilla dusky brown or brownish black 

 with paler tomia; mandible pale brownish (in dried skins), darker ter- 

 minally; iris brown; legs and feet pale bufly brown (in dried skins). 



Adults and young m amtumn and wim,ter. — Similar to the spring 

 plumage, but more pronounced buffy, both above and below, lower 

 throat, chest, breast, sides, and flanks rather deep dull bufl', with 

 dusky streaks on chest rather broader and less sharply defined than in 

 spring and summer. 



Young, first plumage. — Pileum broadly streaked with black and pale 

 bufl, the former predominating; scapulars and interscapulars black 

 edged with bufl and conspicuously margined terminally with white; 

 rump similarly marked, but terminal margins to feathers buff instead 

 of white; wings and tail as in adults, but whitish or pale buffy terminal 

 margins to middle and greater wing-coverts broader and more sharply 

 defined; under parts as in adults, but white of chin and throat more 

 strongly contrasted with the pale buff of chest, etc. 



" In summer the colors become paler, with less of a buffy tinge on under parts, the 

 ujjper parts less buffy, with the paler wing-edgings less distinct. 



