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fifty feet of these nests. Established confidence in secur- 

 ity is a wonderful bird sentiment. 



As we stood there late in the afternoon the birds, by 

 the hundreds, came wheeling into the vicinity of the nests 

 in gradually diminishing circles, like a vast inverted cone, 

 with apex at the face of the bank, and were fed into the 

 sieve-like hopper until the last Swallow had disappeared. 



We dug into a number of these kitchenettes, photo- 

 graphed the young and the nests, and restored them un- 

 harmed to their original positions. 



