NAME' 



DATE- 



NO. 



Towhee ™ A.O.U.NO.- 587 



( Pipil o ery t hr opht halmus ) 



Nest Dimensions: 



May 4, 1933 



INCUBATION' 



1/5 



SIZES- 



0.90 x 0.71 

 0.89 x 0.70 



Outside diam. : 5" 

 Inside diam. : 2^" 

 Height (approx) 3" 

 Depth (inside) 2" 



0.88 x 0.70 

 0.88 x 0.72 



SITUATION- 



The nest of this bird was well 



concealed on the ground at the base of a 

 small white oak and partly covered by a 

 fairly largeclump of grass. It was near the 

 edge of a cut-over field. The nest was neatly 

 made of grasses, weed stems, rootlets, and 

 vegetable fibers; it was lined with finer 

 grasses and rootlets. 



The four white, slightly 

 glossy, oval eggs were fairly evenly covered 

 with spots and dots of reddish brown which 

 on several eggs, made them appear capped. 

 When the eggs were sunsequently blown of the 

 contents, they were found to have been incu- 

 bated approximately 1/5. 



On the hill above the Cemetery 



Big Stone Gap, Va. 



(Rufous-sided Towhee) A.O.U. Checklist 



1983 



