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FIELD KEY TO THE LAND BIRDS. same same

and rebnikling

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the following year in the an old acquaintance, staying around the house and barn all summer, and everybody feels inclined to take him for the same individual bird returning every spring. nest,

Empidonax

— Length, 6 inches. black

tail

breast

it

acts with the confidence of

TRAILL'S FLYCATCHER.

48. trailUi.

and

He

place.

and



Olive-brown above wing Aving with two bars throat white

side grayish

WOOD

44.







belly yellowish.

PEWEE.

Contopus

virens.

Very dark gray above

Length, 6 J inches.

—

underparts yellowish grayish white. Similar to Phoebe, only darker, and having two rows of light spots on his- wing.

45. YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. Umpidonax flavtventris. Length, 5| inches. Dark olive-brown above tail and wing darker, wing with

—



two rows

of light

spots



underparts

yellow,

belly

brightest.

LE

46. 77iinimi(s.

A S T FLYCATCHER.

— Length, 5J inches.

Empidonax

Resembles Phoebe in Wings with two rows

but Avith purer grays. All these Flycatchers resemble the Phoebe in appearance and in habits, except that their home is in the woods. color,

of

light dots.

LARKS. — Alaudidae. Bill.

Foot.

— Rounded. — Nail of hind

Walking 47. alpestris.

or running

toe very long.

ground

birds.

HORNED OR SHORE LARK.

— Length,

7|

inches.

Head and

Otocoris

throat

yellowish Avith black markings back pinkish brown and gray underparts white. A Avinter visitor in open fields and meadoAvs, flying or running about in



large flocks.

PRAIRIE HORNED LARK.

— Similar

to the

Shore Lark, but smaller, and Avhite on head and throat instead of yelloAV.