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more pairs of these great insect destroyers ; if more than one pair, there will be 

 continual warfare as often as one encroaches on the domains of the other. Their 

 nests are made of strips of vegetable fibre, weeds, etc., and lined with horsehair 

 or catkins. They are sometimes quite bulky and generally very substantially 

 made. The three to five eggs are laid the latter part of May, and are of a 

 creamy ground color splashed with reddish brown and lilac. Size .95 x .70. 

 Data. — Worcester County, Massachusetts, June 3, 1895. 4 eggs. Nest 10 feet 

 from the ground in an apple tree; made of fibres, string, rootlets and weeds, 

 lined with horse hair. Collector, F. C. Clark. 



G. E. Moulthrope 

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