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#AMERICAN OSPREY.#--_Pandion paliaetus carolinensis._
RANGE--North America; breeds from Florida to Labrador; winters from
South Carolina to northern South America.
NEST--Generally in a tree, thirty to fifty feet from the ground,
rarely on the ground.
EGGS--Two to four; generally buffy white, heavily marked with
chocolate.
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#SORA RAIL.#--_Porzana carolina._
RANGE--Temperate North America, south to the West Indies and northern
South America.
NEST--Of grass and reeds, placed on the ground in a tussock of grass,
where there is a growth of briers.
EGGS--From seven to fourteen; of a ground color, of dark cream or
drab, with reddish brown spots.
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#KENTUCKY WARBLER.#--_Geothlypis formosa._
RANGE--Eastern United States; breeds from the Gulf States to Iowa and
Connecticut; winters in Central America.
NEST--Bulky, of twigs and rootlets, firmly wrapped with leaves, on or
near the ground.
EGGS--Four or five; white or grayish white, speckled or blotched with
rufous.
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#RED-BREASTED MERGANSER.#--_Merganser Serrator._
RANGE--Northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere; in America breeds
from northern Illinois and New Brunswick northward to the arctic
regions; winters southward to Cuba.
NEST--Of leaves, grasses, mosses, etc., lined with down, on the ground
near water, among rocks or scrubby bushes.
EGGS--Six to twelve; creamy buff.
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#YELLOW LEGS.#--_Totanus flavipes._
RANGE--North America, breeding chiefly in the interior from Minnesota,
northern Illinois, Ontario County, N. Y., northward to the Arctic
regions; winters from the Gulf States to Patagonia.
EGGS--Three or four; buffy, spotted or blotched with dark madder--or
van dyke--brown and purplish gray.
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#SKYLARK.#--_Alauda arvensis._
RANGE--Europe and portions of Asia and Africa; accidental in the
Bermudas and in Greenland.
NEST--Placed on the ground, in meadows or open grassy places,
sheltered by a tuft of grass; the materials are grasses, plant stems,
and a few chance leaves.
EGGS--Three to five, of varying form, color, and size.
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#WILSON'S PHALAROPE.#--_Phalaropus tricolor._
RANGE--Temperate North America, breeding from northern Illinois and
Utah northward to the Saskatchewan region; south in winter to Brazil
and Patagonia.
NEST--A shallow depression in soft earth, lined with a thin layer of
fragments of grass.
EGGS--Three to four; cream buff or buffy white, heavily blotched with
deep chocolate.
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#EVENING GROSBEAK.#--_Cocothraustes vespertina._
RANGE--Interior of North America, from Manitoba northward;
southeastward in winter to the upper Mississippi Valley and casually
to the northern Atlantic States.
NEST--Of small twigs, lined with bark, hair, or rootlets, placed
within twenty feet of the ground.
EGGS--Three or four; greenish, blotched with pale brown.
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#TURKEY VULTURE.#--_Catharista Atrata._
RANGE--Temperate America, from New Jersey southward to Patagonia.
NEST--In hollow stump or log, or on ground beneath bushes or
palmettos.
EGGS--One to three; dull white, spotted and blotched with chocolate
marking.
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#GAMBEL'S PARTRIDGE.#--_Callipepla gambeli._
RANGE--Northwestern Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and
western Utah and western Texas.
NEST--Placed on the ground, sometimes without any lining.
EGGS--From eight to sixteen.