These birds are abundant throughout Europe, nesting on the ground, in stone walls, or in the crevices of old buildings, etc., the nests being made of grass, rootlets, leaves, etc.; the eggs are grayish white, finely specked with blackish gray. Size .75 × .55. 695. SWINHOE'S WAGTAIL. _Motacilla ocularis._ Range.--Eastern Asia; accidental in Lower California and probably Alaska. 696. ALASKA YELLOW WAGTAIL. _Budytes flavus alascensis._ Range.--Eastern Asia; abundant on the Bering Sea coast of Alaska in the summer. These handsome Wagtails are common in summer on the coasts and islands of Bering Sea, nesting on the ground under tufts of grass or beside stones, usually in marshy ground. Their eggs number from four to six and are white, profusely spotted with various shades of brown and gray. Size .75 × .55. Data.--Kamchatka, June 20, 1896. Nest on the ground; made of fine rootlets, grass and moss, lined neatly with animal fur. 697. PIPIT. _Anthus rubescens._ Range.--North America, breeding in the Arctic regions, and in the Rocky Mountains south to Colorado, winters in southern United States and southward. The Titlarks are abundant birds in the United States during migrations, being found in flocks in fields and cultivated ground. Their nests, which are placed on the ground in meadows or marshes under tufts of grass, are made of moss and grasses; the four to six eggs are dark grayish, heavily spotted and blotched with brown and blackish. Size .75 × .55. 698. MEADOW PIPIT. _Anthus pratensis._ Range.--Whole of Europe; accidental in Greenland. This species is similar to the American Pipit and like that species nests on the ground; they are very abundant and are found in meadows, woods or thickets in the vicinity of houses. Their nests are made chiefly of grasses, lined with hair; the eggs are from four to six in number and are grayish, very heavily spotted and blotched with grayish brown. Size .78 × .58. [Illustration 420: White.] [Illustration: White.] [Illustration: American Pipit. Sprague's Pipit.] [Illustration: Gray.] [Illustration: left hand margin.] Page 419 699. RED-THROATED PIPIT. _Anthus cervinus._ Range.--An Old World species; accidental in the Aleutians and Lower California. The nesting habits of this bird are like those of the others of the genus. 700. SPRAGUE'S PIPIT. _Anthus spraguei._ Range.--Interior of North America, breeding from Wyoming north to Saskatchewan. Winters in the plains of Mexico.