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Identifier: birdlore201918nati (find matches)
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 NASHVILLE QUIETLY BROODING until she ceased to jump at the sound, before I had inserted the first plate-holder. Of course there were lots of failures—plates were fogged, the Nashvillemoved too quickly, or the light was poor—but there were good pictures, too,a reward for sitting hunched up under an unbrella with one knee crooked Notes on the Nesting of the Nashville Warbler 271 about a sapling in order to stay on the hillside and endure in silence the friendly-ants which crawled down the back of my neck, not to speak of mosquitoswhose number was legion. The nest was in deep shadow during the greaterpart of the day, and, in consequence, I attempted slow exposures when thebird brooded and, of necessity, faster shots when she stood on the edge of the
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DELIVERED THEM TO THE OPEN MOUTHS THAT GREETED HER nest or fed the young. Once the sun struck so^^full on the small birds that Ihad to erect a little sunshade of dry leaves to shield them from the heat. The Warblers (for though I could not identify him positively, I am surethe male must have shared in providing the larder) delivered food on anaverage of every three and a quarter minutes, with an occasional interval offive minutes or longer. The nest was cleaned every third or fourth trip. Ifind only one unusual habit scribbled into my field notebook. Sometimes the 272 Bird - Lore bird pokes its bill deep into the grasses of the nests bottom, poking and shov-ing hard against the lining until I can plainly hear the impact. The Nash-villes chestnut crown, so prominent in the descriptions of the bird-books, is amore or less concealed patch, like the Kingbirds, or perhaps the male aloneshows it to advantage and I was wrong in supposing that he shared in thedomestic duties. I never saw a re

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