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outside is lined with dried bents and hairs. The eggs (creamy white, with a few light pinky-brown spots) are 
rather elongated, measuring 0-85 by 0-62 inch; interior diameter of nest 2'25 inches by l-S.” 
Mr. Hume, generalizing, says, “ The eggs are sparingly marked, usually chiefly at the larger end, with 
spots, specks, small blotches, hair-lines, or hieroglyphic-like figures, which are typically almost black, but 
which, on some eggs, are blackish (or even reddish) or purplish brown.” The avei’age size of a dozen is 
0'86 inch by 0‘6 inch. 
