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Pig. 19. Gull's Nest on Rotten Log, with eggs starred and nearly ready to 

 hatch, probably belonging to a bird which had earlier failed, but had renewed its 

 activities in time to sucessfully rear young. July 20. 



stayed at terms 3 or 4. Now it might be supposed that those nests 

 which appear in middle or late July (Figs. 17-18) were the work of 

 young birds, or of others which for some cause had not met with earlier 

 success, but this is certainly not always the case. For the space of 

 several day's I watched a pair of gulls, which had large chicks to feed, 

 and repeatedly saw them leave their young and begin the construction 

 of a new nest about a rod from the old one. The female would split 



Fig. 2U. White-hbadbd Eagle's Nest of the First Year, built in 1900, by 

 the owners of the eerie shown in Fig. 21, which was destroyed the previous winter. 

 The nest is considerably broader than tall. 



