EGGS--Three or four, white, with a wreath of distinct and obscure
markings about the larger end.
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#SNOWFLAKE.#--_Plectrophenax nivalis._ Other name: "Snow Bunting."
RANGE--Northern parts of northern hemisphere, breeding in the arctic
regions; in North America, south in Winter into the northern United
States, irregularly to Georgia, southern Illinois, and Kansas.
NEST--Of grasses, rootlets, and moss, lined with finer grasses and
feathers, on the ground.
EGGS--Four to seven, pale bluish white, thinly marked with umber or
heavily spotted or washed with rufous-brown.
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#JUNCO#--_Junco hyemalis._ Other name: "Snowbird."
RANGE--North America; breeds from northern Minnesota to northern New
York and southward along the summits of the Alleghenies to Virginia;
winters southward to the Gulf States.
NEST--Of grasses, moss, and rootlets, lined with fine grasses and long
hairs, on or near the ground.
EGGS--Four or five, white or bluish white, finely or evenly speckled
or spotted, sometimes heavily blotched at the larger end with
rufous-brown.
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#KINGBIRD.#--_Tyrannus tyrannus._
RANGE--North America north to New Brunswick and Manitoba; rare west of
the Rocky Mountains; winters in Central and South America.
NEST--Compact and symmetrical, of weed-stocks, grasses, and moss,
lined with plant down, fine grasses, and rootlets, generally at the
end of a branch fifteen to twenty-five feet from the ground.
EGGS--Three to five, white, spotted with umber.
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