. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. 270 NE8T8 AND EGGS OF ' and evenly chiseled; the average depth was about fourteen Inches, by five in diameter at the widest point, while the diameter of the exterior hole varied from to inches. The labors of excavating the nest and those of incubation are shared alternately by both sexes. Mr. Brewster gives the eggs as numbering ' MS. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (rrom Beal). five to seven in a set, and varying considerably in shape, some being oblong, others decidedly elliptical. They are pure white in color, and there is mu
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. 270 NE8T8 AND EGGS OF ' and evenly chiseled; the average depth was about fourteen Inches, by five in diameter at the widest point, while the diameter of the exterior hole varied from to inches. The labors of excavating the nest and those of incubation are shared alternately by both sexes. Mr. Brewster gives the eggs as numbering ' MS. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (rrom Beal). five to seven in a set, and varying considerably in shape, some being oblong, others decidedly elliptical. They are pure white in color, and there is much less of that fine polish than in eggs of the other species of Woodpeckers he had examined. The size is given as .* 402a. KED-If APED SASBVCKER. Sphyrapicus varius nuchalis Baird. Geog. Dist.—Rocky Mountain region, west to the and Cascade ranges; south into Mexico. The late Major Charles E. Bendire, U. S. A., met with this race of 8. varius sparingly distributed in various portions of the Blue Mountains of Oregon, Wash- ington Territory and Idaho, and as far west as the eastern slope of the Cascade Range in Southern Oregon, im the Klamath Lake region, where it was replaced by Sphyrapicus ruber, the two species overlapping each other, but not intergrading, and remaining perfectly found it breeding in June, nesting in cavities of live • Bull. Nutt. Club, I, pp. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Davie, Oliver; Davie, Oliver. Egg check list of North American birds. Philadelphia, D. McKay
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