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movements, but even though she were frightened away, all her actions were 

 more or less deliberate and no concern was shown for the fate of her offspring. 

 She often perched on some wires running overhead and occasionally gave her 

 little song, very similar to that of the male but much lower in tone. 



Four days passed before we had time to visit the nest again and found that 



I EMALE SCARLET TAN ACER AND VOUNG 



