  Page 163. 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°—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. Page 168. 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. Page 171. 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. Page 175. 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. Page 180. 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. Page 181. CERULEAN WARBLER—DendrÆca 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. Page 186. YELLOW-BILLED TROPIC BIRD.—Phaethon flavirostris. Other names: “Phaeton.” Range.—Tropical coasts; Atlantic coasts of tropical America, West Indies, Bahamas, Bermudas; casual in Florida and accidental in Western New York and Nova Scotia. (Chapman.) Nest—In holes in the perpendicular faces of cliffs, also on the flat surfaces of rocks. Eggs—One, ground color of purplish brownish white, covered with fine reddish chocolate-colored spots. (Davie.) Page 190. EUROPEAN KINGFISHER.—Alcedo ispida. Range—England and portions of Europe. Nest—In holes of the banks of streams. Eggs—Usually six, of a deep pinkish hue. Page 193. VERMILION FLY-CATCHER.—Pyocephalus rubineus mexicanus. Range—Southern Border of the United States south through Mexico and Guatemala. Nest—In forks of ratana trees, not more than six feet up, of small twigs and soft materials felted together, the rims covered with lichens; the cavity is shallow. Eggs—Usually three, the ground color a rich creamy-white, with a ring of large brown and lilac blotches at the larger end. Page 198. LAZULI BUNTING.—Passerina amoena. Other name: “Lazuli Painted Finch.” Range—Western United States from the Great Plains to the Pacific; south in winter to Western Mexico. Nest—In a bush or the lower limbs of trees, a few feet from the ground, of fine strips of bark, small twigs, grasses, and is lined with hair. Eggs—Usually four, light bluish-green. |
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