. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. 234 SCOLOPACIDiE : SNIPE, ETC. The nest is placed near the water of some secluded pool, or in the midst of a marsh, whether fresh or salt, in a tussock of grass or rushes. It is a rude structure, of the simplest materials, raised a little way from the ground, and with a shallow indentation. The eggs are very variable in all respects. As to size and shape, the following measurements show the differences : X ; X ; X ; X ; x
. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. 234 SCOLOPACIDiE : SNIPE, ETC. The nest is placed near the water of some secluded pool, or in the midst of a marsh, whether fresh or salt, in a tussock of grass or rushes. It is a rude structure, of the simplest materials, raised a little way from the ground, and with a shallow indentation. The eggs are very variable in all respects. As to size and shape, the following measurements show the differences : X ; X ; X ; X ; x ; averaging about X They are less pointedly pyriform than the eggs of the smaller Tattlers. Fig. 52.— Head of Wili-et. Natural size. and Sandpipers. The ground is sometimes brownish- olive, or drab, or clay-color; sometimes, again, quite buffy-brown ; in a few cases greenish or grayish-white. The spotting is bold and distinct, but little massed even at the greater end, where, though the spots are largest and most numerous, they generally remain distinct. The spots are mostly clean-edged and sharp, of mod- erate size, but sometimes quite fine and scratchy. They are of various umber-brown shades, and accom- panied with the usual obsolete shell-markings. Under ordinary circumstances Willets are notoriously restless, wary, and noisy birds; but their nature is. 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 Stearns, Winfrid Alden, 1852-; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, C. T. Dillingham
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