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Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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the piazza just at dusk, a small gray thing apparently rolled down thewallc; upon investigation it proved to be one of those refractory childrenstarting out to explore the world. I picked it up and put it to bed ina strawberry basket on some soft grass-clippings. It was very wideawake, and I had to keep my hand over it until darkness and warmthquieted it, and its head went behind its wing. I then tied the basketcarefully to the railing near the nest, and at four the next morning thelittle thing was sitting on the edge of the basket calling for breakfast.On June 28, the father reappeared. I came upon him suddenly whenthey were consulting in the bushes. Apparently he had shirked all thehardest work and had come around for the fun. However that may be,the next morning he and Mrs. Indigo coaxed the little ones safely ofiinto the higher trees, and that was the last we saw of them; but a friendliving an eighth of a mile away said she had apparently the same familyin her trees the next week.
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NEST AND EGGS OF CATBIRD (Englewood, N. J., June i;, 1898) JTor Ceact)er0 anti ^tutient^ How to Study Birds THE NESTING SEASON BY FRANK M. CHAPMAN FOURTH PAPER THE NEST The material of which a birds nest is constructed depends primarily ._ . upon the nature of the birds haunts. The nests of marsh- v^ csttn? , , . , haunting birds are usually made of reeds or woven of wet Matertai , n i i • i n i marsh grasses ; woodland birds generally employ twigs, root-lets, bark, leaves, mosses, etc., while field-inhabiting species, as a rule,use chiefly dried grasses. It follows, therefore, that a change in the nature of a birds haunts isapt to be attended by some variation in the character of its nest. Atthe northern part of its range the Green-crested or Acadian Flycatcherbuilds its nest of plant-stems, grasses and dried blossoms, but in Floridaits nest is composed wholly of the Spanish or Tillandsia moss. In theeast, Night Herons build in trees, when the nest is made of twigsand sticks ; but

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