EGG CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
oO 
~I 
The bird is recorded as having a more southern breeding range, but 
Dr. Jones informs me that since his first ‘‘ find’ he has obtained several 
sets in the same locality, which certainly is significant that the bird is not 
an uncommon summer resident, but simply has escaped observation. 
Fence-posts, brush heaps, stumps, hollow trees, barns, sheds, and 
similar places are selected for its nesting place. 
In his text of the ‘‘ Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of the Birds 
of Ohio,’’+ Dr. Jones has the following concerning the eggs and nests of 
this species: ‘‘ The complement of eggs varies from four to six or seven. 
They measure in long-diameter from .60 to .68, and in short-diameter from 
.48 to.54. A common size is.4gby .64. They are spotted and speckled 
with reddish-brown, sparingly about the point but plentifully toward the 
crown, where the marks are often confluent forming a wreath. The deep 
shell-marks are purplish. 
The nest and eggs of Bewick’s Wren resemble very closely some 
specimens of the House Wren’s in size and shape, and, except in size, 
approach even closer to those of the Great Carolina Wren. The nest 
alone it would be difficult to distinguish from uncovered nests of Z. @don, 
but the eggs are not nearly so thickly marked. Normal specimens of 
each can be always differentiated. The House Wren, however, some- 
times lays eggs very similar to typical eggs of Bewick’s Wren.” 
164. Pyranga estiva. 
Summer Redbird. 
Mr. H. Nehrling of Lee County, Texas, says this bird is quite a 
common summer resident in that section and commences nest-building 
about the middle of May, usually placing it at the extremity of a horizon- 
tal branch from seven to twenty feet from the ground. It is, he says, a 
very loose and open structure composed of bark-strips, slender stems, oak- 
catkins and leaves. The eggs, usually four in number, cannot with cer- 
tainty be distinguished from those of the Scarlet Tanager. The Summer 
Redbird is recorded as a common summer resident in Southern Ohio. 
170a. Carpodacus frontalis rhodocolpus. 
Crimson House Finch. 
This variety of House Finch is found throughout the Pacific coast, from 
Oregon to Mexico. I am informed by Prof. Evermann that this species 
is by far the most common bird that breeds in Ventura County, California. 
+ This admirable work demands more than a passing notice. Itis not too much to say that it rivals in 
beauty and truthfulness of illustration the production of Audubon, and the most skillful critic would almost 
lose his critical powers in admiration upon beholding the striking likenesses presented in this work. The 
text is preeminently accurate. 
