Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4

Nest – About forty feet from the ground.

Eggs – Five to seven.

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WARBLING VIREO.—Vireo gilvus. Other name: “Yellow-throated Vireo.”

Range – North America; breeds as far north as the Hudson Bay region; winters in the tropics.

Nest – Pensile, of grasses and plant fibres, firmly and smoothly interwoven, lined with fine grasses, suspended from a forked branch eight to forty feet up.

Eggs – Three or four, white, with a few specks or spots of black umber, or rufous-brown, chiefly about the larger end.

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WOOD PEWEE.—Contopus Virens.

Range – Eastern North America; breeds from Florida to Newfoundland; winters in Central America.

Nest – Compact and symmetrical, of fine grasses, rootlets and moss, thickly covered with lichens, saddled on a limb, twenty to forty feet up.

Eggs – Three or four, white, with a wreath of distinct and obscure markings about the larger end.

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SNOWFLAKE.—Plectrophenax nivalis. Other name: “Snow Bunting.”

Range – Northern parts of northern hemisphere, breeding in the arctic regions; in North America, south in Winter into the northern United States, irregularly to Georgia, southern Illinois, and Kansas.

Nest – Of grasses, rootlets, and moss, lined with finer grasses and feathers, on the ground.

Eggs – Four to seven, pale bluish white, thinly marked with umber or heavily spotted or washed with rufous-brown.

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JUNCO—Junco hyemalis. Other name: “Snowbird.”

Range – North America; breeds from northern Minnesota to northern New York and southward along the summits of the Alleghenies to Virginia; winters southward to the Gulf States.

Nest – Of grasses, moss, and rootlets, lined with fine grasses and long hairs, on or near the ground.

Eggs – Four or five, white or bluish white, finely or evenly speckled or spotted, sometimes heavily blotched at the larger end with rufous-brown.

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KINGBIRD.—Tyrannus tyrannus.

Range – North America north to New Brunswick and Manitoba; rare west of the Rocky Mountains; winters in Central and South America.

Nest – Compact and symmetrical, of weed-stocks, grasses, and moss, lined with plant down, fine grasses, and rootlets, generally at the end of a branch fifteen to twenty-five feet from the ground.

Eggs – Three to five, white, spotted with umber.