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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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NEST AND EGGS OF OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER(195) 196 Bird - Lore where they were. I concealed myself, and one of the birds soon went to thenest, which was on the horizontal branch of a small spruce. On going upto the nest, I found that it contained one fresh egg instead of the young Iexpected to find. The tree was small (about six inches in diameter at the base), and, asthe branches near the nest would not stand my weight, I doubled a piece of
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OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER ON NEST rope and tied it to the tree above the nest. With a piece of board thismade a good swing to sit in while fixing the camera. I made a bracket forthe camera by screwing two pieces of spruce to the trunk of the tree. Thenest was out on the branch thirty inches. The birds would fly past myhead, snapping their bills fiercely and making their strange cry. From the time the eggs were laid both birds got their food near the nest.I saw one of the birds catch a large dragon-fly, snap ofiE the wings and eatit. Most of their food consisted of smaller insects. \ ;;: The male bird fed the female while she sat on the eggs. .When eitherof the birds went to the nest, it would leave the top of some tree, dropalmost to the ground under the nest, and approach it with a gracefulupward curve. ■ v.-^ • The nest was composed of small spruce twigs and shaped very muchlike the nest of the Green Heron. A Pasture Tragedy By M. H. PRENTICE ALL the world was glad on the day that

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