MAGNOLIA WARBLER.--_Dendroica maculosa._ Other name: "Black and Yellow
Warbler."
RANGE--Eastern North America, west to eastern base of Rocky Mountains;
winters in Bahamas, Cuba (rare), eastern Mexico and Central America.
NEST--Loosely put together, of fine twigs, coarse grasses, and dry
weed-stalks, lined with fine black roots resembling horse hair.
EGGS--Four, creamy white, spotted and blotched with various shades of
reddish-brown, hazel and chestnut.
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GREAT BLUE HERON.--_Ardea herodias._ Other names: "Sand-hill Crane;" "Blue
Crane."
RANGE--The whole of North and middle America, excepting Arctic districts;
north to Hudson's Bay, fur countries, and Sitka; south to Columbia,
Venezuela; Bermudas, and throughout the West Indies.
NEST--In high trees along rivers, or in the depths of retired swamps.
EGGS--Commonly three or four, of a plain greenish blue.
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Birds Illustrated by Color Photography
Vol 3. No 5., by Various
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