Four weeks after, she came again, and there I was, flying about and
singing "like a bird," my mouth full of insects, too. I waited 'till she
had turned away before I flew to the nest to feed our little ones. I
didn't know, you see, that she was such a good friend of ours, or I
wouldn't have been so afraid.
SUMMARY
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#SUMMER TANAGER.#--_Piranga rubra._ Other names: "Summer Red-bird,"
"Rose Tanager."
RANGE--Eastern United States west to the edge of the Plains; north
regularly to about 40 deg.--New Jersey, central Ohio, Illinois, casually
north to Connecticut and Ontario, accidentally to Nova Scotia, wintering
in Cuba, Central America, and northern South America. (Davie.)
NEST--Of bark strips and leaves interwoven with various vegetable
substances, on drooping branch of tree.
EGGS--Three or four, bluish-white or greenish-blue, with cinnamon or
olive-brown markings.
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#AMERICAN WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE#--_Anser albifrons gambeli._ Other names:
"Laughing Goose," "Speckle Belly."
RANGE--North America, breeding far northward; in winter south to Mexico
and Cuba, rare on the Atlantic coast.
NEST--On the ground, of grasses lined with down.
Eggs--Six or seven, dull greenish-yellow with obscure darker tints.
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#TURNSTONE.#--_Arenaria interpres._ Other names: "Brant Bird,"
"Calico-back," "Bead-bird," "Sand-runner," "Chickling,"
"Horse-foot Snipe."
RANGE--Nearly cosmopolitan; nests in the Arctic regions, and in America
migrates southward to Patagonia. (Chapman.)
NEST--A slight depression on the ground.
EGGS--Two or four, greenish-drab, spotted all over with brown.
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#THE BELTED PIPING PLOVER.#--_Aegialitis meloda circumcincta._
RANGE--Missouri river region; occasionally eastward to the Atlantic
coast.
NEST--Depression in the sand without lining.
EGGS--Four, light gray to creamy buff, finely speckled with blackish
brown and purplish gray.
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#WILD TURKEY#--_Meleagris gallopava._
RANGE--Eastern United States from Pennsylvania southward to Florida,
west to Wisconsin, the Indian Territory and Texas.
NEST--On the ground, at the base of a bush or tree.
EGGS--Ten to fourteen, pale cream buff, finely and evenly speckled with
grayish brown.
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#CERULEAN WARBLER#--_Dendraeca caerulea._ Other names: "Azure Warbler;"
"White-throated Blue Warbler."
RANGE--Mississippi valley as far north as Minnesota, and eastward as far
as Lockport, N. Y. (Davison.) Winters in the tropics.
NEST--Of fine grasses bound with spider's silk, lined with strips of
bark and with a few lichens attached to its upper surface, in a tree,
twenty-five to fifty feet from the ground. (Chapman.)
EGGS--Four, creamy-white, thickly covered with rather heavy blotches of
reddish brown.
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