Identifier: birdhomesnestseg00dugm_0 (find matches)
Title: Bird homes : the nests, eggs and breeding habits of the land birds breeding in the eastern United States; with hints on the rearing and photographing of young birds
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Dugmore, Arthur Radclyffe, 1870-1955
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: York University - University of Toronto Libraries

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h slate colour; entire head muchdarker, with concealed crest of bright orange ; tail tippedwith white; under parts white. Length—8.51. Breeding Range—Throughout the Eastern States. The nest is usually placed in a fruit tree near the end of abranch, at from six to twenty-five feet of the ground. It is afairly well-made structure of weeds, grass, moss, fine roots, stripsof grape-vine bark, leaves, string, and catkins, lined with thin stripsof bark and horse hair. The number of eggs varies from 3 to5 being a common number ; they are creamy white, sparselyspotted and blotched with blackish or chestnut brown and lightlilac gray; there are great variations both in size, colour, andmarkings. Average size—.98 x .72. See Fig. 4. Plate D. These somewhat pugnacious birds may be found in the moreopen country and orchards; their peculiar flight and white-tippedtail render them easy of identification. In most places they arevery common, several nests being often found in a single orchard. 136
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NEST AND EGGS OF YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO. Nests in Trees, Bushes, or Vines Near New York they nest about the beginning of June or endof May. 445. Gray Kingbird : Tyrannus dominicensis (Gmel.) Very similar to the preceding, but somewhat larger and with-out the white at the tip of the tail. Breeding Range—South Carolina, southward. The nest is not as large or compact as that of the commonkingbird; the materials used in its construction are much the same;it is placed indiscriminately in bushes or trees, usually not veryfar from water. 3 to 4 eggs are laid; they are pinkish buff, withspots and blotches of dark brown and lilac. Size—i.oox .75. The breeding season begins in May. 466a. Alder Flycatcher: Empidonax traillii ainorum Brewst. Adult—Upper parts greenish brown; under parts whitish; grayishon the breast ; tinged with yellow on the belly, and the sideslight greenish or grayish brown. Length—6.09. Breeding Range—Northern New England and Michigan. The nest is built in the crotch

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