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#BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER.#--_Dendroica blackburniae._
RANGE--Eastern North America; breeds from northern Minnesota and
southern Maine northward to Labrador and southward along the
Alleghenies to South Carolina; winters in the tropics.
NEST--Of fine twigs and grasses, lined with grasses and tendrils, in
coniferous trees, ten to forty feet up.
EGGS--Four, grayish white or bluish white, distinctly and obscurely
spotted, speckled, and blotched with cinnamon brown or olive brown.
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#AMERICAN GOLDFINCH.#--_Spinus tristis._ Other names: "Yellow-bird,"
"Thistle-bird."
RANGE--Eastern North America; breeds from South Carolina to southern
Labrador; winters from the northern United States to the Gulf.
NEST--Externally, of fine grasses, strips of bark and moss, thickly
lined with thistle down; in trees or bushes, five to thirty feet up.
EGGS--Three to six, pale bluish white.
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#CHIMNEY SWIFT.#--_Chaetura pelagica._ Other name: "Chimney Swallow."
RANGE--Eastern North America; breeds from Florida to Labrador; winters
in Central America.
NEST--A bracket-like basket of dead twigs glued together with saliva,
attached to the wall of a chimney, generally about ten feet from the
top, by the gummy secretions of the bird's salivary glands.
EGGS--Four to six, white.
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#HORNED LARK.#--_Otocoris alpestris._ Other name: "Shore Lark."
RANGE--Breeds in northern Europe, Greenland, Newfoundland, Labrador,
and Hudson Bay region; southward in winter into eastern United States
to about latitude 35 deg..
NEST--Of grasses, on the ground.
EGGS--Three or four, pale bluish or greenish white, minutely and
evenly speckled with pale grayish brown.
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#SAPSUCKER, YELLOW-BELLIED.#--_Sphyrapicus varius._
RANGE--Eastern North America; breeds from Massachusetts northward, and
winters from Virginia to Central America.
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.