WATER PTPIT. 
169 
The young of the year in their passage, according to 
Degland, resemble the adults in autumn, but the spots 
are more numerous and confluent below; the upper 
parts are of a darker brown; the tail is more emar- 
ginate, the two most external quills of each side are 
w'hiter, and the third has a small spot at its point; the 
beak and feet are of a clearer brown. 
This bird is figured by BufFon, pi. enl. 661, f. 2, as 
L’’ Alouette Tipi. Nauraann, pi. 85. Richardson and 
Swainson, in Faun. Bor. Amer., ii., 231, pi. 44. Roux, 
Ornith. Prov., pi. 192, in autumn plumage. Bouteille, 
Ornith. du Dauph., pi. 28, f. 5. Dubois, Oiseaux de 
la Belgique, part 65, pi. 95, in winter and breeding- 
plumage. The egg is also figured by Thienemann 
and Badeker. 
