RANGE--Eastern North America, breeding from Northern United States northward. NEST--In evergreens or orchard trees, at a moderate distance from the ground. Composed of weed-stalks, bark-strips, rootlets, grasses, all kinds of vegetable fibres, and lined with hairs. EGGS--Four or five, of a dull green, spotted with very dark brown, chiefly about the larger end. * * * * * Page 58. #RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER.#--_Melanerpes carolinus._ Other name: "Zebra Bird." RANGE--Eastern United States, west to the Rocky Mountains, south to Florida and Central Texas. NEST--In holes in decayed trees, twenty or thirty feet from the ground. EGGS--Four or six, glossy white. * * * * * Page 63. #SAW-WHET OWL.#--_Nyctale acadica._ Other name: "Acadian Owl." RANGE--Whole of North America; breeding from middle United States northward. NEST--In holes, trees, or hollow trunks. EGGS--Four to seven, white. * * * * * Page 67. #BLACK SWAN.#--_Cygnus atratus._ RANGE--Australia. NEST--On a tussock entirely surrounded by water. EGGS--Two to five. * * * * * Page 71. #SNOWY PLOVER.#--_Aegialitis nivosa._ RANGE--Western North America, south to Mexico in winter, both coasts of Central America, and in western South America to Chile. NEST--On the ground. EGGS--Three, ground color, pale buff or clay color, marked with blackish-brown spots, small splashes and fine dots. * * * * * Page 75. #LESSER PRAIRIE HEN.#--_Tympanuchus pallidicinctus._ RANGE--Eastern edge of the Great Plains, from western and probably southern Texas northward through Indian Territory to Kansas. NEST--On the ground in thick prairie grass, and at the foot of bushes on the barren ground; a hollow scratched out in the soil, and sparingly lined with grasses and a few feathers. EGGS--Eight to twelve, tawny brown.