. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. ilORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 461. Reo-throated PiFlT. Adult, winter plumage. four to six In number and are usually of a pale grayish color with a faint tinge of purple, dotted with purplish brown or red, but the markings vary greatly as do the eggs in size. In length they vary from .68 to .82 and In breadth from .55 to .62 inches. A specimen of this bird was taken in Greenland in 1845, and since then Dall has taken it at St. Michael's, Alaska. 700. SPEAGUE'S PIPIT. AntJius spragueii (Aud.) Geog. Dlst.—Interior plains of North America. Breeds fr
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. ilORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 461. Reo-throated PiFlT. Adult, winter plumage. four to six In number and are usually of a pale grayish color with a faint tinge of purple, dotted with purplish brown or red, but the markings vary greatly as do the eggs in size. In length they vary from .68 to .82 and In breadth from .55 to .62 inches. A specimen of this bird was taken in Greenland in 1845, and since then Dall has taken it at St. Michael's, Alaska. 700. SPEAGUE'S PIPIT. AntJius spragueii (Aud.) Geog. Dlst.—Interior plains of North America. Breeds from Central Dakota northward to the Sas- katchewan country; south in winter over southern plains to Southern Mexico. The Missouri Skylark has the same general habits common to the Titlark, but soaring like the European Skylark when singing, and according to those who have heard it, its vocal powers are not less inferior than those of that celebrated bird. It breeds abundantly in Dakota and Montana northward to the Saskatchewan dis- tricts, where Captain Blakiston found them common on the prairies during the breeding season. Sprague's Pipit can also be found in summer in Western Minnesota and In Nebraska. Its nest is built on the ground in a depression, and is made of fine grasses. Interwoven in a circular form and without lining. The surrounding grasses are sometimes formed into an arch like the arch-way of the Meadow Lark's nest. The eggs are four or five, of grayish-white, minutely speckled with purplish-gray; size . Inches. 701. AMERICAN' DIPPER. Cinclus mexicanus Swains. Geog. Dist.—Moun- tainous portions of Western North America, from the Yukon Valley south to North-. em Central America (Guatemala). The American Water Ouzel, a grayish-colored bird, which has the aquatic habits of a duck and the tilting movements of a sandpiper, inhabits exclusively the moun- tainous portions of Western North America. It is resident as far north as the valley of the Yukon River. It
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