SUMMARY. 



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BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. Dendroica 

 blackburnice. 



RANGE Eastern North America; breeds 

 from northern Minnesota and southern Maine 

 northward to Labrador and southward along 

 the Alleghanies to South Carolina ; winters in 

 the tropics. 



NEST Of fine twigs and grasses, lined with 

 grasses and tendrils, in coniferous trees, ten to 

 forty feet up. 



EGGS Four, grayish white or bluish white, 

 distinctly and obscurely spotted, speckled, and 

 blotched with cinnamon brown or olive brown. 



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AMERICAN GOLDFINCH. Spin us tristis. 

 Other names : "Yellow-bird," "Thistle-bird," 



RANGE Eastern North America; breeds 

 from South Carolina to southern Labrador ; 

 winters from the northern United States to the 

 Gulf. 



NEST Externally, of fine grasses, strips of 

 bark and moss, thickly lined with thistle down; 

 in trees or bushes, five to thirty feet up. 



EGGS Three to six, pale bluish white. 



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CHIMNEY SWIFT. Chcetura pelagica. 

 Other name: "Chimney Swallow." 



RANGE Eastern North America; breeds from 

 Florida to Labrador; winters in Central America. 



NEST A bracket-like basket of dead twigs 

 glued together with saliva, attached to the wall 

 of a chimney, generally about ten feet from the 

 top, by the gummy secretions of the bird's 

 salivary glands. 



EGGS Four to six, white. 



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HORNED LARK. Oiocoris alpestris. 

 Other name: "Shore Lark." 



RANGE Breeds in northern Europe, Green- 

 land, Newfoundland, Labrador, and Hudson Bay 

 region ; southward in winter into eastern United 

 States to about latitude 35 



NEST Of grasses, on the ground. 



EGGS Three or four, pale bluish or greenish 

 white, minutely and evenly speckled with pale 

 grayish brown. 



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SAPSUCKER, YELLOW-BELLIED. Sphy- 

 rapicus vanus. 



RANGE Eastern NorthAmerica; breeds from 

 Massachusetts northward, and winters from Vir- 

 ginia to Central America." 



NKST About forty feet from the ground. 



EGGS Five to seven. 



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WARBLING VIREO. Vireogilvus. Other 

 name : ' ' Yellow-throated Vireo. ' ' 



RANGE North America ; breeds as far north 

 as the Hudson Bay region ; winters in the 

 tropics. 



NEST Pensile, of grasses and plant fibres, 

 firmly and smoothly interwoven, lined with fine 

 grasses, suspended from a forked branch eight 

 to forty feet up. 



EGGS Three or four, white, with a few specks 

 or spots of black umber, or rufous brown, chiefly 

 about the larger end. 



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WOOD PEWEE. Contopus Virens. 



RANGE Eastern North America ; breeds from 

 Florida to Newfoundland ; winters in Central 

 America. 



NEST Compact and symmetrical, of fine 

 grasses, rootlets and moss, thickly covered with 

 lichens, saddled on a limb, twenty to forty feet 

 up. 



EGGS Three or four, white, with a wreath of 

 distinct and obscure markings about the larger 

 end. 



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SNOWFLAKE Plectrophenax nivalis. Other 



name: ' Snow Bunting. " 



RANGE Northern parts of northern hemis- 

 phere, breeding in the arctic regions ; in North 

 America, south in Winter into the northern 

 United States, irregularly to Georgia, southern 

 Illinois, and Kansas. 



NEST Of grasses, rootlets, and moss, lined 

 with finer grasses and feathers, on the ground. 



EGGS Four to seven, pale bluish white, 

 thinly marked with umber or heavily spotted or 

 washed with rufous-brown. 



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JUN CO -Junco hyemalis. Other name: 

 "Snowbird." 



RANGE North America ; breeds from north- 

 ern Minnesota to northern New York and 

 southward along the summits of the Alle- 

 ghanies to Virginia; winters southward to the 

 Gulf States. 



NEST Of grasses, moss, and rootlets, lined 

 with fine grasses and long hairs, on or near the 

 ground. 



EGGS Four or five, white or bluish white, 

 finely or evenly speckled or spotted, sometimes 

 heavily blotched at the larger end with rufous- 

 brown. 



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KINGBIRD. Tyrannus tyrannus. 



RANGE North America north to New Bruns- 

 wick and Manitoba ; rare west of the Rocky 

 Mountains ; winters in Central and South 

 America. 



NEST Compact and symmetrical, of weed- 

 stocks, grasses, and moss, lined with plant 

 down, fine grasses, and rootlets, generally at the 

 end of a branch fifteen to twenty-five feet from 

 the ground. 



EGGS Three to five, white, spotted with 

 umber. 



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