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Range (Breeds in the Mississippi)

Breeds in the Mississippi Valley as far north as Minnesota, and eastward as far as Lockport, N. Y. (Davison); winters in the tropics. Washington, very rare T. V., two instances, May.

Nest, of fine grasses bound with spiders' silk, lined with strips of bark and fine grasses and with a few lichens attached to its outer surface, in a tree, twenty-five to fifty feet from the ground. Eggs, four, creamy white, thickly covered with rather heavy blotches of reddish brown, 60 x 47 (Allen, Bull.