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These birds are not at all particular in regard to their 

 nesting sites. Usually they conceal their homes in thick 

 clumps of grass or weeds^ or in bushes not far from the 

 ground^ but I have found them in fields where there was not 

 a spear of grass to offer shade and on ledges that were 

 almost bare. 



Although Song S})arrows are among our most common 

 birds and their nests are very easy to find^ I have made but 

 very few pictures of them, chiefly because I have always had 

 other nests to occupy what time I had at my disposal. On 



Fig. 147. NEST OF SOXG SPARROW. 



