Jan., 1909. Birds of Illinois and Wisconsin — Cory. 729 



Eggs, 3 to 5. Size, about .80 x .60; white, more or less dotted or 

 scrawled with dark brown and pale gray brown. 



Chondestes grammacus. 



Lark Sparrow. Lark Finch. 



Eggs, 4 to 6. Size, about i.io x .78; white, spotted and speckled 



with rufous brown and faint lilac-gray. Sturnella magna. 



Meadowlark. 



Eggs, 4 to 5. Size, about x.So x 1.30; buff, spotted and speckled 



with various tints of brown. Bartramia longicauda. 



Bartramian Sandpiper. Upland Plover. 



SECTION 5. NEST IN WOODS ON GROUND IN DRY 



PLACES. 



Eggs, 4 to 5. Size, about .80 X .60; white, speckled and marked 

 with vinaceous brown or pale brown. Seiurus aurocapillus. 



Oven-bird. 



Eggs, 4 to 5. Size, about .95 x .71 ; pale vinaceous, thickly speckled 



and tinged all over with pale brown, sometimes blotched at the larger 



end. Pipilo erythrophthalmus . 



Towhee. 



Eggs, 2. Size, about i.isx.84; white or creamy white, marked 



with pale brown and lilac-gray. Antrostomus vociferus. 



Whip-poor-will. 



SECTION 6. NEST IN SWAMPY PLACES IN REEDS OR 

 GRASS, ON GROUND OR ON FLOATING VEGETATION. 



PART I. EGGS LESS THAN 1.15 IN. LONG. 



Eggs, 3 to 5. Size, about .70 x .52 ; white, marked with pale brown. 



Geothlypis trichas. 

 Maryland Yellow-throat. 

 Eggs, 4 to 5. Size, about .78 x .60; white or bluish white, thickly 

 marked with rufous brown. Bird, breast striped with brown. 



Melospiza melodia. 

 Song Sparrow. 

 Eggs, 3 to 5. Size, about 1. 00 X. 70. Eggs, pale blue or pale green- 

 ish blue, blotched and scrawled with dark brown or blackish. 



Agelaius phceniceus. 

 Red-winged Blackbird. 



PART 2. EGGS FROM 1.15 TO 1.35 IN. LONG. 



Eggs, 3 to 5. Size, about 1.25 x .92; creamy buff or cream-white, 

 blotched with dark brown Actitis macularia. 



Spotted Sandpiper. 



