. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 206 BIRDS OF AMERICA plain brownish-black; hill, flesh color, dusky on ridge and tip; legs, dark flesh color: iris, reddish-brown. Immature: Darker above than adults: under parts, blackish. Downy YouNc: Sooty black with yellowish bill. Nest and Eggs.— Nest: In a tuft of grass or reeds in meadows; rather compactly constructed (for a Rail) of dry reeds. .Eggs: 6 to 12, cream or buffy, thinly spotted with chestnut or lavender. Distribution.— North .America : breeds from British Columbia, southern Saskatchewan, southern Keewatin, Ontario, .southern Queb
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 206 BIRDS OF AMERICA plain brownish-black; hill, flesh color, dusky on ridge and tip; legs, dark flesh color: iris, reddish-brown. Immature: Darker above than adults: under parts, blackish. Downy YouNc: Sooty black with yellowish bill. Nest and Eggs.— Nest: In a tuft of grass or reeds in meadows; rather compactly constructed (for a Rail) of dry reeds. .Eggs: 6 to 12, cream or buffy, thinly spotted with chestnut or lavender. Distribution.— North .America : breeds from British Columbia, southern Saskatchewan, southern Keewatin, Ontario, .southern Quebec, and New Brunswick south to southern California, Utah, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, New Jersey, and eastern North Carolina, and in Toluca valley, Mexico; winters from Oregon. Utah, and Colo- rado to Lower California and Guatemala, also in the lower Mississippi States, and from North Carolina (casually Massachusetts) to Florida; occurs casually nortli to northern Quebec and Newfoundland. In general habits I have not noticed any very difference between the Virginia Rail and the Sora, unless it be that birds of the former species are more inchned to keep by themselves in solitude or in pairs, whereas a good many photographs. Despite all my care I found it next to impossible to see the bird on the nest before pulling the thread attached to the shutter. So I laid my line of communication further off and pulled at a venture, after waiting a reasonable. VIRGINIA RAIL It hides away in marshes and is little known Cuurtcsy ut S. A. Lottridgu Soras may be found, even during breeding time, in the same bog. The nesting is entirely similar. With neither species, as a rule, can one flush the sitting bird directly from the nest, for it slips off upon hearing the approach. In a few cases, where I came up very silently, I have seen them slip off through the .grass, especially when I approached with caution nests already located. On one occasion, by concealing my camera in a bo
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