. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . THE BIRD BOOK more pairs of these great insect destroyers; if more than one pair, there will becontinual warfare as often as one encroaches on the domains of the other. Theirnests are made of strips of vegetable fibre, weeds, etc., and lined with horsehairor catkins. They are sometimes quite bulky and generally very substantiallymade. The three to five eggs are laid the latter part of May, and are of acreamy ground color splashed with reddish
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . THE BIRD BOOK more pairs of these great insect destroyers; if more than one pair, there will becontinual warfare as often as one encroaches on the domains of the other. Theirnests are made of strips of vegetable fibre, weeds, etc., and lined with horsehairor catkins. They are sometimes quite bulky and generally very substantiallymade. The three to five eggs are laid the latter part of May, and are of acreamy ground color splashed with reddish brown and lilac. Size .95 x .—Worcester County, Massachusetts, June 3, 1895. 4 eggs. Nest 10 feetfrom the ground in an apple tree; made of fibres, string, rootlets and weeds,lined with horse hair. Collector, F. C. G. E. MoulthropeNEST AND EGGS OF KINGBIRD 282 PERCHING BIRDS • 445. Gray Kingbird. Ty Id a n us do m i a icensis. Range.—West Indies; north in April to Flor-ida and the South Atlantic States to SouthCarolina and casually farther. This species is slightly larger than our Kinghird, (9 inches long), grayish instead of darkdrah above, white below, and without anywhite tip to tail. Likethe common Kingbird, it ^_„- has a concealed orangepatch on the crown. Theirhabits and nesting habitsare the same as those ofour common bird, but thenest is not generally aswell built, and nearly al-ways is made largely oftwigs. The three or four eg^s have a creamyor a creamy pink ground color, spotted andblotched with dark brown and lilac, most nuinerously about the large end. Size x . Springs, Florida, May 28, 1802. Nest of twigs and weedCollector, J. A. South ley. 446. Couchs Kingbird. Tyrannus melancholicus —Mexico, north in summer to southern species is very
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