. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. 476 NESTS AND EGGS OF interwoven with Sjier materials, making the wiole impervious to the weather. The inner nest is composed.'cf grasses and fine sedges, lined with soft vegetable down. Several nests are frequently built by a single pair of birds, but not more than one is used. The eggs are six to eight in number, are pure white, unmarked and average . 725. LONG-BILLED MARSH WREN. Cistothorus palustris (Wils.) Geog. Dist.—Eastern United States and British Provinces, wintering in the Gulf States. The Long-billed Marsh Wren is a com
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. 476 NESTS AND EGGS OF interwoven with Sjier materials, making the wiole impervious to the weather. The inner nest is composed.'cf grasses and fine sedges, lined with soft vegetable down. Several nests are frequently built by a single pair of birds, but not more than one is used. The eggs are six to eight in number, are pure white, unmarked and average . 725. LONG-BILLED MARSH WREN. Cistothorus palustris (Wils.) Geog. Dist.—Eastern United States and British Provinces, wintering in the Gulf States. The Long-billed Marsh Wren is a common species in swampy places and salt marshes through- out Eastern United States, where it breeds in colonies of greater or less extent. The nest is globular, or" somewhat the shape of a co- coanut,, very conspicuous by its bulk and its exposed position. It is built of grasses and reeds closely Interwoven and often plastered with mud, securely fas- tened to the upright swaying reeds or cat-tails; it is lined with fine grasses, has a hole on one side, sometimes nearer the bottom than the top. A single pair of these birds will often build several^ nests, only one of which is ever used. The eggs range from five to nine in number, usually five or six; they are very dark colored, being so thickly marked with brown as to appear of a uniform chocolate color; average size ., with considerable variation. 725a. TITLE WREN. GU- tothorus palustris paludicolaBaLiri. Geog. Dist. — Western United States, east to the Rooky Moun- tains, south to Northern Central America (Guatemala). The nesting and eggs of this Western form of the Long-billed Marsh Wren are the same as those of C. palustris of the East- ern States. It nests more gen- erally among the tules, more rarely among the flags. Mr. Bry- ant makes note of a nest found in California which contained Ti5. Long-billed Maksh Wren iFroiu T/ie Osprey.) eggs and was woven among the almost leafless branches of a young willow, five
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