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PART 3. EGGS MORE THAN 1.35 IN. LONG. 



Eggs, 3 to 4. Size, about 1.48x1.08; pale buff, blotched and 

 scrawled with dark brown. The slight but constant difference in 

 color and size will distinguish the eggs of this species from those of the 

 Wilson's Snipe. Oxyechus vociferus. 



Killdeer Plover. 



Eggs, 3 to 4. Size, about 1.55 x 1.15; olive gray or brownish ash, 

 marked with chocolate brown. Gallinago delicata. 



Wilson's Snipe. 



Eggs, 4. Size, about I-55X 1.16; buffy or pale brown, spotted with 

 rusty brown and pale purplish gray. Philohela minor. 



Woodcock. 



SECTION 7. NEST ON SANDY SHORES AND BEACHES, 



Eggs, 3 to 4. Size, about 1.25 x .94; pale buff or pale olive buff, 

 marked and scrawled with dark brown. Nest, eggs deposited in depres- 

 sion in sand on beach or near shore. .-Egialitis meloda. 



Piping Plover. 



Eggs, 3 to 5. Size, about 1.25 x .92; creamy buff or cream-white, 

 blotched with dark brown. Actitis macularia. 



Spotted Sandpiper. 



Eggs, 3 to 4. Size, about 1.48 x 1.08; pale buff, blotched and 

 scrawled with dark brown. Oxyechus vociferus. 



Killdeer Plover. 



GROUP 5. EGGS SPECKLED ALL OVER. 



SECTION i. NEST IN BRANCHES OF TREES OR 



BUSHES. 



Eggs, 4 to 5. Size, about .56 x .54 ; bluish white, dotted with brown. 



Polioptila carulea. 

 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. 



Eggs, usually i or 2. Size, about .87 x .66. Eggs deposited in some 

 other bird's nest. Color., white or pale buff, speckled with brown. 



Molothrus ater. 

 Cowbird. 



Eggs, 3 to 6. Size, about 1.07 x .79; ground color, grayish or pale 

 bluish white, thickly speckled with cinnamon -brown or rufous brown. 



Toxostoma rufum. 

 Brown Thrasher. 



