RANGE--Formerly South Atlantic and Gulf States, from North Carolina to Texas; north in the Mississippi valley to Missouri, southern Illinois, and southern Indiana. Now restricted to the Gulf States and the lower Mississippi Valley, where only locally distributed. (A.O.U.) NEST--In the higher part of a tree. EGGS--Three have been found. ---- Page 107. =AMERICAN SPARROW HAWK.=--_Falco sparverius._ Other name: "Killy Hawk." RANGE--From Florida to Hudson Bay, and winters from New Jersey southward. NEST--In a hole in a tree, frequently in a Woodpecker's deserted nest. EGGS--Three to seven, creamy white to rufous, generally finely and evenly marked with shades of the ground color. ---- Page 111. =SILVER PHEASANT.=--_Phasianus nycthemerus._ Other name: "Penciled." RANGE--Throughout China. ---- Page 115. =SCALED PARTRIDGE.=--_Callipepla squamata._ Other name: "Blue Quail." RANGE--Northwestern Mexico and border of the United States, from western Texas to New Mexico and southern Arizona. NEST--A slight depression under a bush, lined with a few coarse grasses. EGGS--Eight to sixteen, of a buffy-white or cream color, irregularly dotted with specks of light brown. +----------------------------------------------------------------- + | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. | | | | Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant | | form was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. | | | | Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. | | | | Italicized words are surrounded by underline characters, | | _like this_. Words in bold characters are surrounded by equal | | signs, =like this=. | | | | The Contents table was added by the transcriber. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Birds and All Nature, Vol. III, No. 3, March 1898, by Various