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Title: The oist
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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t thesewere badly incubated—too much so tosave. While this record of the unusuallength of the nesting peiiod of theseJuncos does not definitely determineit. still it sets one to thinking thatthere may be more than one brood aseason. I think further investigationsalong this line will verify the suspi-cion. In the Clearwater section of Idaho,I have seen a Spurred Towhee raisetwo broods in one season, buildingthe new nest for the second broodwithin a yard of the first. The sitewas within 10 feet of a public roadand practically in town. This birdwas evidently of a sociable disposi-tion, but she did not owe the success-ful rearing of her broods to the un-usual quality of the boys in the neigh-borhood or the dislike for Towheemeat by the cats in the vicinity. Shehad placed the nest in a large pile ofthcrn brush, impenetrable by eitherman or beast. The nesting song ofthe male drew me to the spot and Ieasily flushed the mother bird. Along search—unnecessary to say a care- THE OOLOGIST 219
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PLATE 23. Montana Juncos Nest and Egnr—a near view. — Plioin by C. S. Mi)(cly. Miillan. M.ilio. 220 THE OOLOGIST ful one for several reasons—revealedthe nest, placed on the ground underthe densest part. From a convenientpeephole in the top of the pile, I care-fully observed the proceedings of thehappy family during the rest of theseason. I have no designs en the member-ship of our ex-Presidents AnnaniasClub nor to be at the head of the Na-ture Fakir Procession, so it is bet-ter I stop. As Mr. Roosevelt prob-ably has not noticed the above Orni-thological items in the form of a per-sonal experience, I would immediatelybe consigned to the aforementionedClubs were this to come to his notice. It is better to be right, than Presi-dent. Perhaps (who knows?) thatwas the real reason of a third termrefusal. But this is carrying Ornithology in-to Politics, which I must not do forthe sake of Ornithology. L. B. HOWSLEY. Curians. I was much interested in examin-ing a Chipping Sparrow (Spizell

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