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SECTION 3. NEST ABOUT DWELLINGS AND BARNS. 



Eggs, 6 to 8. Size, about .64 x .40 ; occasionally pale vinaceous or 

 ])inkish without marking, but usually thickly speckled. 



Troglodytes acdon (or parkntanii) . 

 House Wren. 



SECTION 4. NEST IN OPEN FIELDS, ON GROUND OR 

 IN BUNCH OF GRASS. 



Eggs, 10 to 14. Size, about 1.70 x 1.26. Color, cream buff or pale 

 olive buff. Tympaniichns americaniis. 



Prairie Hen. 



SECTION 5. NEST ON (-ROUND L\ WOODS IN DRY 



PLACES. 



Eggs, 8 to 14. Size, about 1.5 1 x 1.16. Color, jjale buff or buffy 

 white. Bonasa iimbcllns. 



Ruffed Grouse. 



SECTION 6. NEST IN SWAMPY PLACES, IN REEDS OR 

 GRASS, ON GROUND OR ON FLOATING VEGETATION. 



Eggs, 6 to 12. Size, about 1.85 x 1.32; pale buff or creamy buff. 



Querquedula discors. 



Blue-winged Teal. 



Eggs, 3 to 5. Size, about 1.90 x 1.44; grayish olive or olive drab. 



Botaurus lentiginosns. 

 American Bittern, 



GROUP 4. EGGS SPOTTED OR MARKED CHIEFLY^ 

 AT LARGER END. 



SECTION I. NEST IN BRANCHES OF TREES OR 



BUSHES. 



PART I. EGGS LESS THAN .75 IN. LONG. 



Eggs, 4 to 5. Size, about .63 x .50; dull white, marked with light 

 brown. Bird, sides of body yellow, outer tail feathers pale yellow, 

 broadly tipped with brown. (Female.) Sctophaga riiticilla. 



Redstart. 



