Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 5

Nest – On the ground, at the base of a bush or tree.

Eggs – Ten to fourteen, pale cream buff, finely and evenly speckled with grayish brown.

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CERULEAN WARBLER—Dendræca caerulea. Other names: “Azure Warbler;” “White-throated Blue Warbler.”

Range – Mississippi valley as far north as Minnesota, and eastward as far as Lockport, N. Y. (Davison.) Winters in the tropics.

Nest – Of fine grasses bound with spider’s silk, lined with strips of bark and with a few lichens attached to its upper surface, in a tree, twenty-five to fifty feet from the ground. (Chapman.)

Eggs – Four, creamy-white, thickly covered with rather heavy blotches of reddish brown.

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YELLOW-BILLED TROPIC BIRD.—Phaethon flavirostris. Other names: “Phaeton.”

Range. – Tropical coasts; Atlantic coasts of tropical America, West Indies, Bahamas, Bermudas; casual in Florida and accidental in Western New York and Nova Scotia. (Chapman.)

Nest – In holes in the perpendicular faces of cliffs, also on the flat surfaces of rocks.

Eggs – One, ground color of purplish brownish white, covered with fine reddish chocolate-colored spots. (Davie.)

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EUROPEAN KINGFISHER.—Alcedo ispida.

Range – England and portions of Europe.

Nest – In holes of the banks of streams.

Eggs – Usually six, of a deep pinkish hue.

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VERMILION FLY-CATCHER.—Pyocephalus rubineus mexicanus.

Range – Southern Border of the United States south through Mexico and Guatemala.

Nest – In forks of ratana trees, not more than six feet up, of small twigs and soft materials felted together, the rims covered with lichens; the cavity is shallow.

Eggs – Usually three, the ground color a rich creamy-white, with a ring of large brown and lilac blotches at the larger end.

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LAZULI BUNTING.—Passerina amoena. Other name: “Lazuli Painted Finch.”

Range – Western United States from the Great Plains to the Pacific; south in winter to Western Mexico.

Nest – In a bush or the lower limbs of trees, a few feet from the ground, of fine strips of bark, small twigs, grasses, and is lined with hair.

Eggs – Usually four, light bluish-green.