NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS EGGS. 



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Photo from life by E. L. Bickford. 

 BUSH-TIT AND NEST. 



745. Lloyd Bush-Tit.^ Pmltriparm 

 lloydi. 



Range. Northern Mexico north into 

 western Texas and New Mexico. 



This f-pecies is similar to the lead- 

 colored Bush-Tit but has the ear cov- 

 erts glossy black. Like the others, it 

 builds a long pensile nest of similar 

 material and suspended from the 

 extremities of limbs near the ground. 

 The five to seven eggs are pure white. 

 Size .58 x .42. 



746. Verdin. Auriparus flaviceps. 



Range Mexican border of the United 

 States, north to Colorado and Nevada. 



This Bush-Tit has a 

 bright yellow head and 

 throat, the upper parts 

 being gray and the belly, 

 white. They are abundant, 

 in chaparral brush, locally ' (Jre n hbluej 

 throughout their range. Their large 

 globular nests are situated in bushes 

 at low elevations from the ground, and 

 are made of twigs and weeds, softly 

 lined with fur and feathers. Their 

 three to six eggs are pale greenish 

 blue, specked and dotted with reddish 

 brown. Size. 58 x. 44. Data. Browns- 

 ville, Texas, May 8, 1894. Large nest 

 of sticks and thorns, lined with hair 

 and feathers, and located in a bush in 

 brush thicket, 8 feet from the ground. 

 Collector, F. B. Armstrong. (Crandall 

 collection.) 



746a. Baird Verdin. A . f. lamprocephalus. 



Range. Lower California. 



This new sub-species is said to have shorter wings and tail, and also to be 

 brighter yellow on the head. Its habits and eggs will not differ from those of 

 the common Verdin or Yellow-headed Bush-Tit. 



WARBLERS, KINGLETS and GNATCATCHERS. Family SYLVIID/E. 



747. Kennicott Willow Warbler. Phi/llopxcuxti-x 



Range. Asia, casually found in Alaska. 



This species breeds in the extreme northern parts of Asia, and 

 I believe its eggs have never been found on this continent. They 

 build their nests of moss and grasses, on the ground in open 

 woods, concealing them under tufts of grass or tussocks of earth. 

 The three to five eggs are white, spotted with pale reddish brown. 

 Size .70 x .50. 



