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female near the nest, as she refuses to return as long as 

 a tent or other blind is in sight. 



To what extent scientific ornithology can be carried, 

 one investigator recently reported in painful detail: he 

 had killed and examined eighty-seven Dickcissels that he 

 might be able to examine their juvenile plumage. A 

 shame ! 



