. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . ry, especiallyin the middle portion, they arevery rare. They breed verylocally and generally notmore than one pair in any lo-cality. In New England, ihave always found them nest-ing in company with ParulaWarblers, in dead conifer-ous swamps in which thebranches are covered with long pendant nests are placed high up in the trees,generally above fifty feet from the ground, andon small horizontal limbs; they are made ofsmall twigs and
. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . ry, especiallyin the middle portion, they arevery rare. They breed verylocally and generally notmore than one pair in any lo-cality. In New England, ihave always found them nest-ing in company with ParulaWarblers, in dead conifer-ous swamps in which thebranches are covered with long pendant nests are placed high up in the trees,generally above fifty feet from the ground, andon small horizontal limbs; they are made ofsmall twigs and rootlets, lined with finer root-lets and moss, and are very flat and shallow;as they are generally made to match the sur-rounding, they are one of the most difficult nests to find. They lay three orfour cream colored eggs which are spotted with reddish brown and lilac, chieflyabout the large end. Size .85 x .65. Data.—Lake Quinsigamond, Massachusetts,June 12, 1897. Nest of twigs and moss, about 60 feet above the ground, in adead pine tree in center of a large wet swamp. Nest could not be seen fromthe ground, and was found by watching the
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