. Birds of New York. Birds. BIRDS OF XKW YORK i=;i Nesting. I am pleased to report that the Black, or Short-tailed teni, is a regular summer resident in the inarshes near the mouth of Big Sandy creek, Jefferson county, N. Y. According to Dr R. L. Crockett, Mr L. C. Snyder and Mr J. W. Soule the birds begin to lay during the last week in May, making their nests on sunken muskrat houses, floating boards, or debris, merely gathering together a few straws on which to deposit the eggs which are from two to five in number, usually three. Dr Crockett writes that the eggs are sometimes found as late a
. Birds of New York. Birds. BIRDS OF XKW YORK i=;i Nesting. I am pleased to report that the Black, or Short-tailed teni, is a regular summer resident in the inarshes near the mouth of Big Sandy creek, Jefferson county, N. Y. According to Dr R. L. Crockett, Mr L. C. Snyder and Mr J. W. Soule the birds begin to lay during the last week in May, making their nests on sunken muskrat houses, floating boards, or debris, merely gathering together a few straws on which to deposit the eggs which are from two to five in number, usually three. Dr Crockett writes that the eggs are sometimes found as late as the last of July and thinks. Nest and eggs of Black tern. (From Bird-Lore: photo by Bent) that t\\'0 broods are reared. Mr Snyder estimated that there were 150 pairs of breeding birds in 1903. Mr William Hagedone, keeper of the Life Saving Station, writes that in 1905 there were probably 1000 birds in the marshes; that they arrive about the first of June, lay four eggs in a nest, the young "are all out" by the 4th of July, that no one shoots them, and they are all gone by the ist of September. Mr Foster Parker of Cayuga has found it breeding in the Montezuma marshes on a few occasions. The eggs are brownish olive, quite heavily spotted and sjilashcd with light brown, brownish l)lack and obscure shell markings, dimensions x .95. 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 Eaton, Elon Howard, 1866-1934. Albany, University of the State of New York
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