OOLOGICAL COLLECTION OF

EDWARD J. COURT, Washington, D. C.

A. O. U. No. 70.

Set Mark 494-I/3.

Date 6-I-21.

Incubation Fresh.

Locality Bone Island, Virginia.

Nest made of drift grass and lined with fine grass.

This species is quite plentiful on all of the
island off the Virginia coast.

Birds circled over us while we were collecting
their eggs.

Collector Edward J. Court.

Private No.