WOOD PEWEE.—Contopus Virens.
Range—Eastern North America; breeds from Florida to Newfoundland; winters in Central America.
Nest—Compact and symmetrical, of fine grasses, rootlets and moss, thickly covered with lichens, saddled on a limb, twenty to forty feet up.
Eggs—Three or four, white, with a wreath of distinct and obscure markings about the larger end.
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SNOWFLAKE.—Plectrophenax nivalis. Other name: “Snow Bunting.”
Range—Northern parts of northern hemisphere, breeding in the arctic regions; in North America, south in Winter into the northern United States, irregularly to Georgia, southern Illinois, and Kansas.
Nest—Of grasses, rootlets, and moss, lined with finer grasses and feathers, on the ground.
Eggs—Four to seven, pale bluish white, thinly marked with umber or heavily spotted or washed with rufous-brown.