NEST--Of leaves, grasses, mosses, etc., lined with down, on the ground near water, among rocks or scrubby bushes. EGGS--Six to twelve; creamy buff. * * * * * Page 60. #YELLOW LEGS.#--_Totanus flavipes._ RANGE--North America, breeding chiefly in the interior from Minnesota, northern Illinois, Ontario County, N. Y., northward to the Arctic regions; winters from the Gulf States to Patagonia. EGGS--Three or four; buffy, spotted or blotched with dark madder--or van dyke--brown and purplish gray. * * * * * Page 61. #SKYLARK.#--_Alauda arvensis._ RANGE--Europe and portions of Asia and Africa; accidental in the Bermudas and in Greenland. NEST--Placed on the ground, in meadows or open grassy places, sheltered by a tuft of grass; the materials are grasses, plant stems, and a few chance leaves. EGGS--Three to five, of varying form, color, and size. * * * * * Page 66. #WILSON'S PHALAROPE.#--_Phalaropus tricolor._ RANGE--Temperate North America, breeding from northern Illinois and Utah northward to the Saskatchewan region; south in winter to Brazil and Patagonia. NEST--A shallow depression in soft earth, lined with a thin layer of fragments of grass. EGGS--Three to four; cream buff or buffy white, heavily blotched with deep chocolate. * * * * * Page 70. #EVENING GROSBEAK.#--_Cocothraustes vespertina._ RANGE--Interior of North America, from Manitoba northward; southeastward in winter to the upper Mississippi Valley and casually to the northern Atlantic States. NEST--Of small twigs, lined with bark, hair, or rootlets, placed within twenty feet of the ground. EGGS--Three or four; greenish, blotched with pale brown. * * * * * Page 73. #TURKEY VULTURE.#--_Catharista Atrata._ RANGE--Temperate America, from New Jersey southward to Patagonia. NEST--In hollow stump or log, or on ground beneath bushes or palmettos. EGGS--One to three; dull white, spotted and blotched with chocolate marking. * * * * * Page 78. #GAMBEL'S PARTRIDGE.#--_Callipepla gambeli._ RANGE--Northwestern Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and western Utah and western Texas. NEST--Placed on the ground, sometimes without any lining. EGGS--From eight to sixteen.