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PART 3. EGGS MORE THAN 1.35 IN. LONG. 



Eggs, 3 to 4. Size, about 1.48 x i.oS; 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 dcUcata. 



Wilson's Snipe. 



Eggs, 4. Size, about 1.55 x 1.16; buffy or pale brown, spotted with 



rusty brown and pale purplish gray. PJiilolida minor. 



Woodcock. 



SECTION 7. NEST ON SANDY SHORES AND BEACHES. 



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

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

 s'on in sand on beach or near shore. .'Egialitis iiicloda. 



Piping Plover. 



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



blotched with dark brown. Aciitis ntacularia. 



Spotted Sandpiper. 



Eggs, 3 to 4. Size, about 1.4S x 1.08; pale buff, blotched and 



scrawled with dark brown. Oxyechus vocifertis. 



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. 



Polio ptila Cicnilca. 

 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. 



Molothriis 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 rufuf-n. 

 Brown Thrasher. 



