FIELD KEY TO THE LAND BIRDS. same same
and rebnikling
23
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.
