THE WESTERN BLUEBIRD. 



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Taken in Oregon. Flioto by Finley and Bohlman. 



WESTERN BLUEBIRD AT NEST. 



is tlie subject of frequent remark. ]Mr. Finley tells^ of an instance in wliich 

 a first brood, just out of pinafores, turned to and helped their parents provide 

 food for another liatch of babies, and this not once, nor twice, nor casually, 



a. "American Birds," by William Lovell Finley (1907), p. 170. 



