O— GROUND-COLOR OF SHELL NEITHER WHITE OR WHITISH, NOR BLUE 
OR BLUISH, OR GREEN OR GREENISH— Continued. 
No. 
Size of Eggs 
in Short- 
diameter. 
Size of Eggs 
in Long- 
diameter. 
Ground-color of 
Shell. 
How Marked, Color of Marks, etc. 
No. in 
a Set. 
Location, Position, Materials, 
Size, etc., of Nest. 
English and Latin 
Name of Bird. 
17 
.80 to .90 
1.20 to 1.30 
Brown, shading in 
some eggs toward 
olive or brownish- 
buff. 
Marked, not very plentifully, with blotches, 
spots, and speckles, of the same color as the 
ground, but darker. Deep shell-marks often 
wanting. When they occur they are bluish- 
gray. 
6 to 10 
Nest in marshes and about wet patches 
of ground, either upon the ground or 
upon some rubbish. Made of grass, 
weed-stems, reeds, etc. 
Sora Rail. 
Porzana Carolina. 
18 
.70 to .82 
,90 to 1.04 
Dingy y ell owish- 
brown. 
Marked with irregular spots and blotches of 
darker shade of ground-color. Deep shell- 
marks purplish-brown. Markings quite uni- 
formly distributed, or chiefly about the crown 
in a wreath. 
5 to 6 
Nest in orchard trees, hedges, and 
small trees in open fields; honey-locust 
trees favorites. Composed of weed- 
stems, grass, weed -fibres, feathers, thorns, 
etc.; lined with flaxen-fibres, feathers, 
wool, etc. Inside diameter 3% inches. 
Loggerhead Shrike. 
Lanins ludovicianus. 
19 
.60 to .72 
.SO to .95 
Buff or yellowish- 
clay-color. 
Marked with lines, blotches, spots, and 
speckles of burnt umber, or walnut-color. 
Deep shell-marks are purplish or bluish. 
Eggs are thickly marked. Usually the lines 
run lengthwise, often crossing one another. 
4 to 6 
Nest iu cavity, natural or artificial, in 
a tree, usually in woods, but may be in 
an orchard tree in country or town. Nest 
composed of weed-stems, etc., almost 
invariably pieces of snake skin are to 
be found about the rim. 
Great-crested 
Flycatcher. 
My i arc 1ms crinitus. 
20 
.55 to .65 
.70 to .90 
Very light gray, drab, 
olive, or reddish. 
Marked with large blotches, spots, and 
speckles; also occasionally lines of warm, 
rich brown, or brown, nearly black. Deep 
shell-marks purplish-gray, and often numer- 
ous. Eggs usually profusely marked: some- 
times greatly obscuring the ground-color; 
shell often looks stained. 
1 to 5 
Nest on the ground in damp meadows, 
etc. Composed of grass, clover-stalks, 
etc, ; lined with grass. Diameter of cav- 
ity about 3 inches. 
Bobolink. 
Dolichonyx oryzivorus. 
21 
.55 to .59 
.70 to .79 
Light buff or creamy. 
Marked with blotches, spots, and minute 
specks of chocolate- or reddish-brown, chiefly 
on the basal half; often forming a ring; seldom 
more than 20 blotches and spots; seldom deep 
shell-marks. 
3 
Nest in low trees or in the lower limbs 
of large trees in woods, usually within 
reach, in a horizontal crotch near the 
end of a limb. Made of small, round 
weed-stems, tendrils, catkins, etc.; a frail 
affair, supported at sides only. Eggs 
often may be seen through the boltom. 
Diameter of cavity about 2 inches. 
Acadian Flycatcher. 
Empidonnx acadicns. 
22 
.51 to .58 
.66 to .74 
Light buff or creamy. 
Marked with large blotches, spots, and 
speckles of various shades of chocolate- 
brown, from a light wash to almost black. 
Number of marks from 2 to 20, chiefly about 
the basal end. 
2 to 4, 
usually 
3 
Nest in bushes and low trees in thickly 
overgrown bottom land, etc.; willow 
thickets, so dense as to be almost impen- 
etrable, are favorite places: most gener- 
ally in a perpendicular fork, within 
reach from the ground. Composed of 
flaxen fibres, weed-stems, etc.; lined 
with split grasses, roller grass, etc. Di- 
ameter of cavity about 2 inches; depth, 
about \]4 inches. 
Traill's Flycatcher. 
Empidonax pusillus 
trailli. 
23 
.50 to .59 
.65 to .79 
Light buff or creamy. 
Marked with blotches, spots, and speckles of 
chocolate-brown or reddish-brown, confined 
to the base, where they form a ring; often 
they are confluent. Deep shell-mnrks about 
as numerous as surface marks, and laveuder 
in color. 
3 to 4 
Nest in trees about the border of woods, 
on the banks or streams, etc.; also in 
town in shade trees. Nest situated on 
upper surface of a limb or in a horizon- 
tal fork ; sometimes on a dead limb. 
Nest covered entirely or partly with 
lichens. Diameter of cavity from 1.80 to 
2.25 inches. 
Wood Pewee. 
Contopus vlrens. 
24 
.48 to .55 
.62 to .72 
Pinkish or some- 
times nearly white. 
Marked with blotches, spots, and speckles, 
so thickly as to nearly obscure the ground- 
color of some specimens. Some arc thickly 
and uniformly speckled only: others have a 
ring about the base, composed of blotches and 
spots in addition to the speckles elsewhere. 
But whatever the arrangement of the marks, 
they are uniformly brown-madder. Deep 
shell-marks may be wanting or numerous. 
5 to ,9 
Nest about old buildings, etc., in all 
kinds of odd nooks ; also in natural 
cavities iu orchard audother trees; often 
in bird -boxes. Composed of sticks, 
weed-stems, strings, horse-hair, moss, 
feathers, etc. Diameter of cavity about 
2 inches. 
House Wren. 
Troglodytes aedon. 
25 
.48 to .53 
.60 to .70 
Chocolate, often of a 
pinkish cast ; some 
eggs are only lightly 
tinted; others as dark 
as a grain of browned 
coffee. 
Some eggs are nearly plain; others are 
heavily marked over entire shell; some have 
only very fine and indistinct speckles; others 
moderately large ami bold spots and speckles. 
The various ground-colors and different murk- 
ingscombine to make very numerous patterns. 
Marks usually a darker shade of ground-color. 
4 to 6 
Nest usually between 1 and 3 feet above 
ground or water: placed in a bush, reeds, 
cat-tails, or marsh grass; globular, about 
the size of a small cocoanut. Composed 
chiefly of long blades of grass, inter- 
woven. Foaud only aboat swamps. 
Long-billed Marsh 
Wren. 
Tehnatodytes palustris. 
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