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N£STS AND EGGS OF 
ities, and even in this region, show marked variations in length, some 
being .95 of an inch, and others, not more than .74. The same holds 
good with respect to the width ; the greatest being .63 of an inch, and the 
least .50. The average dimensions are .77 by .55 of an inch. The num- 
ber of broods generally raised is two, the latter often as late as the last 
of July, or the beginning of August. This is not always the case, espe- 
cially when the season has been unusually delayed by means of the 
weather, or when the natural instinct has been unaccountably restrained. 
