732 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. IX. 



PART 3. EGGS MORE THAN 1.50 IN. LONG. 



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

 buff, sometimes speckled with brown. Tympanuchus americanus. 



Prairie Hen. 



SECTION 5. NEST ON GROUND IN WOODS IN DRY 



PLACES. 



Eggs, usually i or 2. Size about .87 x .66. Eggs are deposited in 

 some other bird's nest. Color, white or pale buff, speckled with brown. 



Molothrus ater. 



Cowbird. 



Eggs, 4 to S- Size, about .95 X.7 1 ; pale vinaceous, thickly speckled 



with pale brown. Pipilo erythrophthalmus. 



Towhee. 



SECTION 6. NEST IN SWAMPY PLACES, IN REEDS OR 

 GRASS,, ON THE GROUND OR ON FLOATING 

 VEGETATION. 



PART I. EGGS LESS THAN 1.50 IN. LONG. 



Eggs, 5 to 9. Size, about .66 x .48 ; thickly speckled with cinnamon 

 or olive brown, n'est, globular; entrance in side; attached to reeds 

 (sometimes small bushes). Telmatodytes palustris. 



Long-billed Marsh Wren. 



Eggs, usually i or 2. Size about .87 x .66. Eggs are deposited in 



some other bird's nest. Color, white or pale buff, speckled with 



brown. Molothrus ater. 



Cowbird. 



Eggs, 4 to 6. Size, about i.oox.71; grayish or grayish white, 



speckled with pale cinnamon-brown. Nest, a mass of grass and reeds. 



Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus. 

 Yellow-headed Blackbird. 



PART 2. EGGS MORE THAN 1.50 IN. LONG. 



Eggs, 8 to 13. Size, about 1.78x1.20; pale buff , with irregular 

 marks of rufous brown or clear brown. Gallinula galeata. 



Florida Gallinule. 



Eggs, 7 to 14. Size, .about 1.88x1.28; pale buffy white, finely 



speckled and dotted with black. Fulica americana. 



American Coot. 



