This section is from the book "The American Bird-Keeper's Manual", by James Mann. Also available from Amazon: The American Bird-Keeper's Manual.
This bird is rather smaller than the last mentioned, and is likewise a winter visitant. They visit us in the autumn, and fly in small flocks about our meadows and ploughed fields. Although almost silent while here, having only a single note, there is no doubt but they sing in the countries where they breed, as those of our winter visitants, who have been seen there, in their breeding season, are said to sing sweetly. I have not yet been able to procure a live specimen, to try its singing qualities in the cage. In the Western States, where numbers of them winter, they are named the Prairie Tit Lark.
They may be fed the same as the Meadow Lark.
The male has the upper parts of a brown olive color; the breast and lower parts are a light yellowish brown, spotted with black; the spots most numerous on the breast. The female bears a strong resemblance to the male; the only difference, the colors are duller on the female.
Found in winter in the New England States; many of them winter in the Western States. Breeds in the Fur Countries.
 
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