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Eggs, 2 to 3. Size, about 1.35 x .98 ; brownish olive, heavily marked 

 with dark brown. Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis . 



Black Tern. 



Eggs, 4. Size, about 1.50 x 1.15; pale buff, marked and spotted 

 with light brown and rufous brown. Nest, eggs deposited on leaves 

 on ground. Philohela minor. 



Woodcock. 



PART 3. EGGS MORE THAN 1.50 IN. LONG. 



Eggs, 4. Size, about 1.52 x 1.15; pale buff, marked and spotted 

 with light brown and rufous brown. Nest, eggs deposited on leaves 

 on ground. Philohela minor. 



American Woodcock. 



Eggs, 7 to 12. Size, about 1.63x1.20; buffy white (rarely dull 

 white), with scattered spots of rufous brown and occasional ones of 

 pale lilac-brown. Nest, a platform of grass and weeds. 



Rallus elegans. 

 King Rail. 



Eggs, 3. Size, about 1.78 x 1.20; variable; olive gray or pale buff, 

 irregularly marked with dark brown. Nest, a mass of weeds. 



Sterna forsteri. 

 Foster's Tern. 



Eggs, 2. Size, about 3.50 x 2.20; olive or olive brown, with scat- 

 tered marks and spots of brownish black. Gavia immer. 



Loon. 



