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Height from the ground — About eight or ten feet ; in the lower fork 

 of a beech tree. 



Materials used — Grass, moss and very fine strips of bark well woven 

 and matted together and coated on the outside with bits of lichen of 

 nearly the same color as the mottled gray trunk of the beech tree in which 

 it was built. 



Shape — Symmetrically circular, with walls quite uniform in thickness, 

 which is about an inch or a little less. The floor is thin ; the walls are 

 about two inches high and the inner depth is nearly as great. 



Lining — Fine grass and strips of the soft fibers apparently pulled 

 from the trunks of cedar trees. 



" Now comes the graybeard of the north ; 



The forests bare their rugged breasts 

 To every wind that wanders forth, 



And, in their arms, the lonely nests 

 That housed the birdlings months ago 



Are egged with flakes of drifted snow." 



— Henry Abbey. 



