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Fig.23S. THREE LITTLE KINGS. 



ally. As I approached the orchard they came out to meet 

 me, not with words of welcome, but with their usual pene- 

 trating notes of warning. When I paused beneath their 

 nest they became so vociferous that they put the whole 

 orchard population into a panic; Robins^ Bluebirds, Chip- 

 ping and Song Sparrows, Orioles, House Wrens and a pair 

 of Tree Swallows, swarmed about me all giving their var- 

 ious notes of distress and alarm. It required but a few 

 minutes of this noise to bring forth the farmer to investi- 

 gate. 



