. . s or can hunt them with agood bird dog, little opportunity is afforded the observerto form an acquaintance with it. Grassy tracts along couleesand prairie marshes are the haunts of the yellow crake,which avoids cattails and sluggish water more than do theother rails. One observer was fortunate in discovering a little colonyof these birds in North Dakota, and by diligent watchinglocated several pairs and ultimately discovered their nests,which were concealed in thick clumps of grass in open,marshy places. Until these nests were lo
. . s or can hunt them with agood bird dog, little opportunity is afforded the observerto form an acquaintance with it. Grassy tracts along couleesand prairie marshes are the haunts of the yellow crake,which avoids cattails and sluggish water more than do theother rails. One observer was fortunate in discovering a little colonyof these birds in North Dakota, and by diligent watchinglocated several pairs and ultimately discovered their nests,which were concealed in thick clumps of grass in open,marshy places. Until these nests were located the eggs ofthe yellow rail were practically unknown to science. Thesix or more eggs are among the most beautiful found inNorth America; the background is a rich cream color, hav-ing a cluster of minute purple and brown specks about thelarge end. The nest is a loosely constructed affair of grassand weed stems, placed upon the ground within the pro-tecting shadows of bunches of sedges or reeds, often beingplaced in a tussock of grasses surrounded by
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