WATER PIPIT. 169 



The young- of tlie year in their passage^ according to 

 Dcgland^ resemble the adults in autumn^ but the spots 

 are more numerous and confluent below; the upper 

 parts are of a darker bro\yn; the tail is more emar- 

 ginate, the two most external quills of each side are 

 whiter, and the third has a small spot at its point; the 

 beak and feet are of a clearer brown. 



This bird is figured by Buflbn, pi. enl. 661, f. 2, as 

 U Alouette Pipi. Naumann, pi. 85. Ilichardson and 

 Swainson, in Faun. Bor. Amer., ii., 231, pi. 44. Houx, 

 Ornith. Prov., pi. 192, in autumn plumage. Bouteil, 

 Ornith. du Dauph, pi. 28, f. 5. Dubois, Oiseaux de 

 la Belgique, part 65, pi. 95, in winter and breeding- 

 plumage. The Q^^ is also figured by Thiencmann 

 and Biideker. 



