tractive bird and cheery songster vary 

 from three to five in number. 



The Towhees (Pipilo erythrophthal- 

 miis) or Chewinks breed from Georgia 

 and the lower Mississippi Valley, north- 

 ward to Maine, Ontario, and Manitoba, 

 and westward as far as Dakota. Their 

 nests are usually placed on the ground 

 or sometimes in bushes in woods, sunny 

 slopes or in clearings which are thickly 

 covered with grass. The large nests are 

 made of strips of bark, rootlets, fine 

 twigs, dead leaves, and are lined with 

 fine grass. The sets of eggs vary from 

 four to five. 



The Song Sparrows (Melospiza fas- 

 ciata) breed from Virginia and northern 

 Illinois northward to the Fur Countries. 

 Their nests are usually built upon the 

 ground in fields or woody places or occa- 

 sionally in bushes at a height of not over 

 five feet above the ground. Their nests 

 are usually quite coarse and made of 

 coarse grasses, rootlets, weeds, strips of 

 bark, dry leaves and lined with hair and 

 fine grasses. However, they are at times 

 much more delicate and made of grass 

 with a lining of finer grasses and hair. 

 The sets of eggs of these attractive birds 

 vary from four to five. 

 - The Chipping Sparrows (Spisella so- 

 cialis) breed from the Gulf States north- 

 ward to Newfoundland and the Great 

 Slave Lake. Their nests are built in 

 trees or bushes at a height of from two 

 to twenty-five feet above the ground. 

 They are made of fine twigs, rootlets and 

 grasses and well lined with hairs which 

 may be quite long. The sets of eggs of 

 these common and social Sparrows vary 

 from three to five. 



The Vesper Sparrows (Pooccetes gra~ 

 mineus) or Grass Finches, breed from 

 Virginia, the Ohio River and Missouri to 

 New Brunswick and Manitoba. Their 

 nests are built upon the ground at the 

 base of bushes or coarse weeds and gen- 

 erally in open fields. They are made of 

 coarse grasses, moss, or rootlets and 

 lined with fine grass, hair or fine root- 

 lets. The sets of eggs vary from four to 

 five. 



The Great-tailed Crackles (QuiscaJiis 

 macronrus) have a limited range extend- 

 ing through eastern Texas and south- 



ward through eastern Mexico and Cen- 

 tral America. The nests are usually placed 

 in mesquite trees and "strongly built of 

 straws, leaves and grasses, mud being 

 used freely. Where Spanish moss is 

 plentiful, the nests are sometimes en- 

 tirely of it." The sets of eggs vary from 

 three to five but the former number is 

 more common. 



The Bronzed Crackles (Quiscalus 

 quiscula cFueits) breed, according to Mr. 

 Chapman : "From Texas to Great Slave 

 Lake, east to the Alleghanies as far north 

 as Pennsylvania, and north of this, east- 

 ward to Connecticut and northward to 

 Labrador." Their nests are placed in 

 bushes or trees, sometimes in hollow 

 stumps or trees, at a height from five to 

 sixty feet above the ground. The coarse 

 and bulky nests are composed of twigs, 

 grasses and rootlets often more or less 

 cemented with mud. They are lined with 

 fine grasses and wool. The sets of eggs 

 vary from three to six. 



The Baltimore Orioles (Icterus gal- 

 hula) breed from the Gulf States north- 

 ward to Ontario, and their pensile nests, 

 six to eight inches in depth, are securely 

 fastened to the twigs at or near the end 

 of a branch from fifteen to forty feet 

 above the ground. They are built with 

 grasses, shreds of fibrous bark, hair, 

 strings, vegetable down and wool. They 

 are lined with wool and fine grasses. 

 The sets of eggs of these charming birds 

 vary from four to six. 



The Orchard Orioles (Icterus spurius) 

 have a breeding range nearly co-ordi- 

 nate with that of the preceding species. 

 Their nests are also pensile and built 

 near the extremity of a branch, from ten 

 to twenty-five feet above the ground. 

 They are carefully made by weaving a 

 quantity of fresh grass and lacing it to 

 twigs and leaves. The sets of eggs vary 

 from three to five, and the nests are gen- 

 erally in orchards or in the trees of our 

 lawns. 



The Meadowlarks (Sturnclla magiia) 

 or Field Larks breed throughout the 

 eastern United States from the Gulf of 

 Mexico to New Brunswick and Minne- 

 sota. The nests of these birds are built 

 of grasses and are frequently more or 

 less arched. They are on the ground in 



