268 THE BIRDS 
bulky affair of twigs, rootlets, weed stems and grasses, 
well lined with feathers, wool, or hair. They are generally 
placed on a low, horizontal limb of a roadside tree, or 
in the thick young sprouts of a beheaded tree, from ten 
to thirty feet up. The eggs number five to six, a dull 
eravish-white, spotted and blotched with light brown and 
olive, often forming a wreath around the larger end. 
Size, .99x.71. Fresh eggs April 26th to May 5th. Only 
one brood a season. They are somewhat more numerous 
during the spring and fall, April 1st, December 20th, 
but cven then they are not a common bird with us. 
