THE BIRD BOOK 
more pairs of these great insect destroyers; if more than one pair, there will be 
continual warfare as often as one encroaches on the domains of the other. Their 
nests are made of strips of vegetable fibre, weeds, etc., and lined with horsehair 
or catkins. They are sometimes quite bulky and generally very substantially 
made. The three to five eggs are laid the latter part of May, and are of a 
creamy ground color splashed with reddish brown and lilac. Size .95 x .70. 
Data. — Worcester County, Massachusetts, June 3, 1895. 4 eggs. Nest 10 feet 
from the ground in an apple tree; made of fibres, string, rootlets and weeds, 
lined with horse hair. Collector, F. C. Clark. 
G. E. Moulthrope 
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