occasionally laid on the grass, and no effort is made to build a nest. The female 

 thoroughly covers the eggs when she leaves the nest. 



The number of eggs varies from six to eight, though ten have been recorded. 

 They are of a ''yellowish buff or greenish yellow" color. 



This duck is considered an excellent food and is much sought for by the 

 natives of those regions which it frequents. 



PinC Warbler {Dendroica vigorsi) 



Range : Breeds in Transition and Austral zones from northern Manitoba, 

 northern Michigan, southern Ontario, southern Quebec, and New Brunswick 

 south to east-central Texas, the Gulf States, and Florida; winters from southern 

 Illinois and coast of Virginia to Florida, eastern Texas, and Tamaulipas. 



Few of our birds are so aptly named as the pine warbler, which first, last, 

 and all the time, except in migration, resorts to pine woods. It summers in them 

 in the north and it winters in them in the south. Even its feathers often bear con- 

 clusive evidence of its predilection for pines, being often besmeared with their 

 gum. Among its bright-hued relatives the pine warbler cuts but a poor show 

 with its somber green and brown coat, which, at least in Florida, is often dingy 

 and smoke-begrimed from contact with burnt timber. 



Though distinctly a warbler and not a creeper, the pine warbler is more 

 deliberate in its motions than most of its kind and, somewhat in the manner of the 

 creeper, moves among the branches or over the trunks in search of its insect food. 

 For a warbler it is an early migrant and reaches the latitude of Massachusetts 

 soon after the middle of April. Indeed, its nest contains eggs or young while the 

 late migrants are still passing north. Its song has little variation, but while 

 monotonous is pleasing and sweet, far sweeter than the trill of the chipping spar- 

 row, which it recalls. Naturally the pine warbler nests in pines, usually rather 

 high up, either on a horizontal limb or among the twigs at the extremity of a 

 limb. 



Helping the Robins to Nest 



By Winthrop Packard 



In a Bird-Lore census, taken not long ago, it was estimated that the robin was 

 the most numerous American bird, the house sparrow coming next. The robin, 

 in one form or another, nests practically all over the continent of North America 

 and the bird is one of the most friendly that we have. The poet Wordsworth once 

 referred to the English robin as 



"Honest Robin, who loves mankind both alive and dead," 



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