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CHAPTER II. 
THE PERCHING BIRDS.—( Coztznued.) 
N the Titlark we have one of those northern birds 
that enter the United States in autumn and remain 
until spring, and often until the weather is quite warm, 
or nearly the first of May. As a winter bird they 
would be a grand success if they had any music in 
their souls, but they have not, or, having it, let not 
the outside world have any intimation of the fact. 
A whole flock of these birds, however, tripping over 
the frost-bitten fields, or drifting before the wind when 
a gale sweeps across the meadows, is really a very 
pretty sight. I have often found them associated 
with another and far prettier so-called “lark,” of 
which more hereafter. 
In the interior plains of North America, breeding 
from Central Dakota north to the Saskatchewan, 
south, in winter, over southern plains to Southern 
Mexico, is found Sprague’s Pipit, which is much the 
same bird as our eastern species in its habits. 
We are now brought to consider a group of North 
American birds which have much in common, and 
yet present more variations from a common type 
than is usual; these little birds, and they are all small, 
are known popularly as Warblers. I say “known 
popularly,” but it is a rather remarkable fact that the 
great mass of our people do not yet recognize them 
