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Bird Studies. 



and the tail is much as in the adult male, the same white patches above and 

 below being noticeable. The eyes in the female and immature birds are 

 brown. 



The birds nest in bushes near to the ground and generally in " saw 

 grass " marshes. The eggs are two or three in number, with a ground color 

 of pale bluish white, heavily spotted and often washed with reddish and 

 chocolate brown. They are about an inch and three quarters long and 

 somewhat less than an inch and a half broad. 



The birds, so far as ascertained, occur only in Florida in the United 

 States, where they breed locally in the southern half of the State, migrating 

 south in the winter. They are common in localities in Cuba, Eastern Mex- 

 ico, and Central America. They also occur in Eastern South America, 

 south to the Argentine Republic. 



A SYLVAN STREAM. 



