. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 476 .v/;n7'.s' .IA7> /vY/r;.s' of *i V. Interwoven with fUier materiab, making tiie wliole impervious to the weather. Tho inner nest is composed cf grasses and fine sedges, lined with soft vegetable down. Several nests are frequenUy built by a single pair of birds, but not more than one in used. The eggs are si:c to eight in number, are pure white, unmarked and average . 723. LONG-BILLED MABSH WHEN. Cistothorus palustris (Wlls.) Geo^. Dist.âEastern United States and British Provinces, win
. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. 476 .v/;n7'.s' .IA7> /vY/r;.s' of *i V. Interwoven with fUier materiab, making tiie wliole impervious to the weather. Tho inner nest is composed cf grasses and fine sedges, lined with soft vegetable down. Several nests are frequenUy built by a single pair of birds, but not more than one in used. The eggs are si:c to eight in number, are pure white, unmarked and average . 723. LONG-BILLED MABSH WHEN. Cistothorus palustris (Wlls.) Geo^. Dist.âEastern United States and British Provinces, wintering in the Gulf States. 'â mmhr^mmm ^^^ Long-bllled Marsh Wren ^- ^ t is a common species in swampy places and salt marshes through- out Eastern United States, where it breeds in colonies of greater or less extent. The nest is globular, or somewhat the shape of a co- coanut, very conspicuous by its bulk and its exposed position. It is built of grasses and reels closely interwoven and oft'n plastered with mud, securely ias- tened to the uprightswayingreeds or cat-tails; it is lined with fine grasses, has a hole on one side, sometimes nearer the bottom than thetop. Asinglepairofthesebirds will often build several^ nests, only one of which is ever used. The eggs range from five to nine in number, usually five or six; they are very dark colored, being so thickly marked with brown as to appear of a uniform chocolate color; average size ., with considerable variation. 725a. TULE WBEN. Cis- tothorus paltistris paludicolaBsiird. Geog. Dist. â Western United States, east to the Rocky Moun- tains, south to Northern Central America (Guatemala). The nesting and eggs of this Western form of the Long-billed Marsh Wren are the same as those of C. palustris of the East- ern States. It nests more gen- erally among the tules, more rarely among the flags. Mr. Bry- ant makes note of a nest found in California which contained 725. Long-billed Maksh Wren (From The Osprey ) eggS and was W
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