RANGE--Paraguay and southern Brazil through the State of La Plata to
Patagonia.
NEST--In the ground, dug by the female with her feet.
EGGS--Twenty and upwards.
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BAY-BREASTED WARBLER.--_Dendroica castanea._ Other name: "Autumnal
Warbler."
RANGE--Eastern North America, westward to Hudson Bay; south in winter to
Central America.
NEST--Of fine shreds of bark, small twigs, roots, and pine hair.
EGGS--Four, white, with bluish tinge, finely speckled on or round the
larger end.
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BLACK-NECKED STILT.--_Himantopus mexicanus._ Other names: "Lawyer," "Long
Shanks," "Pink-Stockings."
RANGE--The whole of temperate North America, middle America, and northern
South America, south to Peru and Brazil; West Indies in general, and
Bermudas; north on the Atlantic coast to Maine. More generally distributed
and more abundant in the western than in the eastern province.
NEST--Small sticks and roots, in the grass on the margin of a lake or
river.
EGGS--Three or four, greenish-yellow.
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PINTAIL.--_Dafila acuta._ Other names: Sprig-tail; Spike-tail; Pike-tail;
Picket-tail; Pheasant Duck; Sea Pheasant; Water Pheasant; Long-neck.
RANGE--Nearly the entire northern hemisphere, breeding chiefly far
northward, in North America, migrating south in winter as far as Panama and
Cuba.
NEST--In tall bunches of prairie grass, seldom far from water.
EGGS--Eight or nine, of a dull grayish olive.
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