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edge of the Skokie Marsh twenty feet 

 from a small wood. It was made of 

 grass, weeds, and lined with horse 

 hair. Fresh. 



19. July 8, 191.5, Lake Co., 111.— 

 Least Bittern, five eggs. Nest in a 

 bed of dead reeds and cat-tails at But- 

 ler's Lake. It was located a foot 

 above water three feet deep. Eggs 

 nearly fresh. 



20. July 26, 1915, Lake Co., 111.— 

 Cedar Waxwing, six eggs. Nest situ- 

 ated fourteen feet up in a Haw Apple 

 tree standing in a vacant lot between 

 two houses and was made of weed 

 stems and lined with fine grass. Incu- 

 bation started. 



21. August 27, 1915, Lake Co., 111.— 

 Goldiinch, six eggs. Nest six feet up 

 in a Sumach shrub within eight feet 

 of an interurban carline over which a 

 car passes every ten minutes. Com- 

 posed of fine grass and thistle down. 

 Incubation advanced. 



Walter A. Goeiitz. 

 Ravina, 111. 



Interesting Sets in My Shore Bird 



Collection. 



Gerald A. Abbott. 



Having received many favorable 

 comments on a recently published list 

 of Warbler's eggs, it might not be 

 amiss for me to quote interesting data 

 from fifty varieties of shore birds eggs 

 in my cabinet. I have refrained from 

 listing some because they are extreme- 

 ly accidental on our list and are so 

 nearly identical with some of our truly 

 American forms. This is true of the 

 Ring Plover, Dunlin, Black-tailed God- 

 wit, European Golden Plover and Oys- 

 tercatcher. 



222 2 Sets of Red Phalarope from 

 Point Barrow, one containing the un- 

 usual number of five eggs. Collector, 

 William E. Snyder. 



223 1/4 Northern Phalarope, taken 

 by Joseph Grinnell, at Cape Glossom, 

 Alaska. These eggs look somewhat 



different from any Iceland sets that 

 I have seen. 



224 Wilson's Phalarope. I have a 

 nice little series of these from Wiscon- 

 sin, North Dakota and Illinois. 



225 Avocet. Originally these eggs 

 do not vary greatly in size or color, 

 but the alkali on which they are de- 

 posited bleaches or dyes the shell. 

 Aside from personally collecting eggs 

 from North Dakota the others are from 

 Salt Lake, Utah. 



226 Black-necked Stilt. I consider 

 these eggs more attractive as a whole 

 than those of the former variety. I 

 have a pretty series taken from colo- 

 nies about Salt Lake by the Trefianzas. 



(227) European Woodcock. I have 

 two very large handsome sets, from 

 Scotland. The eggs in one clutch are 

 wreathed. 



228 American Woodcock. Probab- 

 ly the finest personally collected ser- 

 ies known. By hard and persistent 

 searching I have found over 125 nests 

 of this popular wader. From this num- 

 ber I have saved some remarkable 

 types. 



229 European Snipe. I have se- 

 lected several types of the English 

 Snipe eggs for the purpose of compari- 

 son. 



230 Wilson's Snipe. I have a large 

 series, many from the famous breeding 

 grounds in New Brunswick and New- 

 foundland. Others come from the 

 States of New York, Wisconsin and 

 Utah. Without a doubt I consider 

 these as a whole the handsomest ser- 

 ies of waders in my collection. 



231 1 have two handsome sets of 

 Dowitchers from the far Northwest. 

 In coloration they are suggestive of 

 Willet eggs. One set comes from A. J. 

 Schoenebeck, Honory Cureator, Mil- 

 waukee Academy of Sciences. 



232 The eggs of the Long-billed 

 Dowitcher taken on the shores of 

 Behring Sea, Alaska, are pea green 



