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building its nest in the Hudson’s Bay country, early in 
June: this nest is nothing but a slight hollow scratched 
in the earth, and lined with a few pieces of grass or sea- 
weed. The eggs are four in number: they are of an olive 
color, sometimes a drab; and are marked with spots and 
blotches of reddish and black, chiefly at the greater end, 
where they are confluent, and nearly cover and conceal 
the ground-color. Their form is abruptly pyriform; and 
their dimensions average about 1.55 by 1.15 inch. 
It is rarely that we find two specimens of this bird in the 
full plumage, or marked alike : they exhibit all the varieties, 
from almost entirely gray on their upper parts, to the 
plumage described above. 
