. The Canadian bird book [microform] : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds : also several hundred photographs of their nest and eggs. Oiseaux; Birds. THE BIHD BOOK. HmimIi'iI Itiinlinu 608. Sharps'* Seed-iatbb. Sporophila morelUti morelleti Range.—Eastern Mexico, breeding north to the Lower Rio Grande Valley !n Texas. ThlB peculiar, diminutive Flnth Is but inches in length, and In plumage Is blaok, white and gray In restricted localltleH in BOUthern Texas, they are not uncommon during the sum- mer months. They build In bushes or young trees at low el
. The Canadian bird book [microform] : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds : also several hundred photographs of their nest and eggs. Oiseaux; Birds. THE BIHD BOOK. HmimIi'iI Itiinlinu 608. Sharps'* Seed-iatbb. Sporophila morelUti morelleti Range.—Eastern Mexico, breeding north to the Lower Rio Grande Valley !n Texas. ThlB peculiar, diminutive Flnth Is but inches in length, and In plumage Is blaok, white and gray In restricted localltleH in BOUthern Texas, they are not uncommon during the sum- mer months. They build In bushes or young trees at low elevations making their nests ul' fine grasses or fibres, firmly woven together and usually placed in an upright crotch. The eggs are pale greenish blue, plentifully speck- led with reddish and umber brown, and some markings of lilac. 8i«e .66 x .46. Data.— „ . .. _ SirWnsville, Texas, ^-y 7. 1892. "".enish blue Nest of fine flbre-liko laterlal lined with horse hairs, on limb of small tree in open woods near a lake of fresh water; 6 feet above ground. Collector, Frank B. Armstrong. This set Is In the collection of Mr. C. W. Crandall. (tiO.'J. I Ohashqi'it. Tiarii bicolor. Range.—This small Finch is a Cuban species which casually strays to soutU- ^"^They aw abundant on the Island, building large arched nests of grass, with a small entrance on the side. They lay from three to six white eggs, specked with brown. Size .66 x .60. [] Melodious Grassquit. Tiarit cannra. Another Cuban Finch which has been take. In the Florida Keys, the last. UggH like 604. DicKcissEL. Spisa americana. Interior of the United States, breed- ing from the Qjlf to northern United States, west to the Rockies, east to the AUeghanles. A sparrow like Bunting with a yellow breast patch, line over eye and on side of throat; throat black, chf >. white and wing coverts chest- nut These sleek-coated, harmoniously colored birds are very common in dry bush-grown pas- tures and on
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