. Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... . re, with an abundance of horn-beam, flowering dogwood andother small trees. It neither seeks nor avoids swampy ground, but israrely found in mere thickets in open country, or on the bushy islands inmarshes, at least during the nesting season. During migration the birdmay be found almost anywhere. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION. Adult male: Head and neck all around
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. Michigan bird life : a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation to agriculture ... . re, with an abundance of horn-beam, flowering dogwood andother small trees. It neither seeks nor avoids swampy ground, but israrely found in mere thickets in open country, or on the bushy islands inmarshes, at least during the nesting season. During migration the birdmay be found almost anywhere. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION. Adult male: Head and neck all around, upper breast, and entire upper parts, deepblack; breast and sides orange red, the rest of the under parts white, more or less streakedwith black; basal half of most of the wing and tail-feathers orange, remainder black;bill and feet black. Female entirely different; the black of the male replaced above bygrayish-olive, and below by white; the red of the male replaced by yellow, usually pale.Young males resemble the females, but are variously intermediate, the yellow often tingedwith orange; probably they do not acquire the full i)lumage until the second or tiiird year Length 4.75 to 5.75 inches; wing 2.40 to 2.55; tail 2.30 to 2.45.. H ^ ■^ Plate LXIV. Titlark.From an original (Irawinj; by P. A. Tavcrncr. LAND BIRDS. 655 Family 64. MOTACILLID.E. Wagtails.Represented in Michigan by a single species, the Titlark. 299. Titlark. Anthus rubescens (Timstall). (697) Synonyms: Tipit, American Pipit, American Titlark, Prairie Titlark, HudsonianWagtail.—Alauda rubescens, Tunstall, 1771.—Alauda pensilvanica, Lath., 1787.—Anthuspensylvanicus, Thien., 1849, and many others.—Anthus ludovicianus, Licht., 1828, andmost subsequent authors until 1884.—Anthus pensilvanicus, Stejn., 1884, A. O. V. Clieck-list, 1886, and later authors. Plate LXIV. A slender, active antl inconspicuous little bird, commonly found inscattered flocks on the ground in open wet places in spring and fall; br