. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Birds; Birds; Birds; Birds; Birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 167 Ik sticks and green twigs in leaf for lining. It was placed in a medium- sized oak about forty feet from the ground. The egg, which was ad- vanced in incubation, he describes a pure white, size * Col. Goss also observed the Mississippi Kite nesting in the timber lands bordering Medicine River, near Sun City, Barber county, Kansas, and found seven r sts on the 22d of May ; on the 31st he collected four sets of eggs containing t
. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Birds; Birds; Birds; Birds; Birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 167 Ik sticks and green twigs in leaf for lining. It was placed in a medium- sized oak about forty feet from the ground. The egg, which was ad- vanced in incubation, he describes a pure white, size * Col. Goss also observed the Mississippi Kite nesting in the timber lands bordering Medicine River, near Sun City, Barber county, Kansas, and found seven r sts on the 22d of May ; on the 31st he collected four sets of eggs containing two each, and one nest contained a single egg. June loth, two more sets of two eggs each were taken. Col. Goss de- scribes the eggs as "white or bluish-white;" the last two sets were stained by the wet leaves in the nests. The eggs measure by sets as follows: First, , ; second, ,; third, , ; fourth, , ; fifth, ; sixth, , ; seventh, , The nests were all built either in the forks from the main body, or in tne forks of the larger limbs of the cottonwood and elm trees, and when old would be taken for the nests of the common Crow. Their height from the ground ranged from twenty-five to fifty feet, f Mr. R. E. Rachford informs me that he took two sets of the eggs of this species in Texas from nests situated about thirty feet from the ground in oak trees. The color of the eggs he describes as white, with a slight greenish tinge. 330. Rostrhamus sociabilis (Vieill). [429.] Everglad* Kits. Hab. Florida, Atlantic coast of Mexico, part of West Indies, Central America, E^astern portion of South America to the Argentine Republic. This slate-colored Kite is a resident of the Everglades of Florida, and also occurs in the fresh water marshes and lakes of the middle and southern portions of the State. Mr. W. E. D. Scott found it abundant at Panasofkee Lake, about Febr
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