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Bird Studies. 



median line on the head. Her general color is buffy brown throughout, and 

 the wings have an area of light orange beneath, replacing the rose color of 

 the male. This characteristic, with the size, head markings, and robust bill 

 serve to make recognition an easy matter. Immature birds are like the 

 female in general color, but the young males have the area under the wing 

 and sometimes on the breast rosy red. The birds average rather more than 

 eight inches long. 



ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. 



MALE OF FIRST YEAR IN AUTUMN. UPPER PARTS 



These are wood birds of the more open, well watered forests.* In such 

 woodlands where there is dense undergrowth, along some brook they find 

 congenial localities, where they build their nests and rear their young. 



The nest is a shallow, thin saucer of rootlets, twigs, and plant fibres, and 

 is placed in dense bushy undergrowth or on the lower limbs of trees from five 

 to twenty feet from the ground. A typical example is given in the accom- 

 panying illustration. The eggs, generally four in number, are rather light 

 blue marked in a pattern, shown in the picture, with varying shades of brown. 

 They are more than nine tenths of an inch long and a little less than seven 

 tenths width. 



The birds are found throughout Eastern North America as far north as 



