732 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. IX. 

 PART 3. EGGS MORE THAN 1.50 IN. LONG. 



Eggs, 10 to 14. Size, about 1.70 x 1.26; cream buff or pale olive 

 buff, sometimes speckled with brown. Tympanuchus americanus. 



Prairie Hen. 



SECTION 5. NEST ON GROUND IN WOODS IN DRY 



PLACES. 



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

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



Molothrus ater. 



Cowbird. 



Eggs, 4 to 5. Size, about .95 x .71 ; pale vinaceous, thickly speckled 



with pale brown. Pipilo erythrophthalmus . 



Towhee. 



SECTION 6. NEST IN SWAMPY PLACES, IN REEDS OR 

 GRASS, ON THE GROUND OR ON FLOATING 

 VEGETATION. 



PART I. EGGS LESS THAN 1.50 IN. LONG. 



Eggs, 5 to 9. Size, about .66X.48; thickly speckled with cinnamon 

 or olive brown. Nest, globular; entrance in side; attached to reeds 

 (sometimes small bushes). Telmatodytes palustris. 



Long-billed Marsh Wren. 



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



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



brown. Molothrus ater. 



Cowbird. 



Eggs, 4 to 6. Size, about i.oox.71; grayish or grayish white, 



speckled with pale cinnamon-brown. Nest, a mass of grass and reeds. 



Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus. 

 Yellow-headed Blackbird. 



PART 2. EGGS MORE THAN 1.50 IN. LONG. 



Eggs, 8 to 13. Size, about 1.78x1.20; pale buff, with irregular 

 marks of rufous brown or clear brown. Gallinula galeata. 



Florida Gallinule. 



^ggs, 7 to 14. Size, about 1.88x1.28; pale buffy white, finely 



speckled and dotted with black. Fulica americana. 



American Coot. 



