. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . American AvocetBlaick-neokea Stilt. Grecnisii buff. throughout the west, constructing their nests inthe grass, bordering marshy places. The nest issimply a lining of grass in a hollow in the lay three or tour eggs of a dark greenishor brownish buff color, boldly marked withbrown and black. Size Data.—RushLake, Assiniboia. Four eggs laid in a depressionin the sand, lined with dry weeds. Many birdsnesting in the colony. 2
. The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . American AvocetBlaick-neokea Stilt. Grecnisii buff. throughout the west, constructing their nests inthe grass, bordering marshy places. The nest issimply a lining of grass in a hollow in the lay three or tour eggs of a dark greenishor brownish buff color, boldly marked withbrown and black. Size Data.—RushLake, Assiniboia. Four eggs laid in a depressionin the sand, lined with dry weeds. Many birdsnesting in the colony. 226. Black-necked Stilt. Ilimantopus mexicamis. Range.—Like the last, this species is rarelyfound east of the Mississippi, but is very abund-ant in the United States west of that river. A black and white wader, with ex-eremely long red legs; otherwise a grace-fully formed bird. It breeds in largecolonies anywhere in its range, makingIts nests of weeds and sometimes a fewtwigs, on the ground beside of, or in themarshes. Their eggs number three orfour and are brownish or greenish buffwith numerous markings of brownishblack, these markings being
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