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Bird Studies. 



three to five bluish white eggs are spotted, usually at the larger end, with 

 reddish and olive brown markings. They are little more than three fifths of 

 an inch long, and a little less than half an inch wide. 



REDSTART. ADULT MALE. 



The Redstarts' general range in summer is throughout North America. In 

 the area under consideration they breed from North Carolina and Kansas to the 

 Hudson's Bay country. They winter in the West Indies and Tropical America. 



This is eminently a wood bird, flycatcher-like in some of its attributes. 



The adult male, with its conspicuous bill bristles, is among the most beautiful 



of the group to which it belong.s. The upper parts are 



Canadian Warbler, (j^j-k slate gray, the wings and tail more olive. The 



'Wilsonia can^densis(Linn.). ^ iii-ii* 



feathers of the top of the head are black with edgmgs of 

 the color of the back. There is a line from the bill to the back of and above 

 the eye of bright greenish yellow. The region in front of, below, and back 

 of the eye is black, which color extends in a line each side of the throat to 

 the breast, where a series of spots joining make continuous black lines, eight 

 or ten in number, striping the breast. The entire under parts, save for this 

 decoration, are bright greenish yellow, fading into white on the feathers under 

 the tail. The female and immature birds are similar in pattern, but are 

 duller, and the markings are obscure and undefined. The birds are about 

 five and a half inches long. 



