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proximately about that date. They again nested in the same 

 elm as in 191 5. but on this occasion their nest hole was 

 in the main trunk of the tree, to the right of the telephone 

 standard — in 1 9 1 5 their nest hole was in a rotten limb to 

 the left of the standard {vide plioto). 



On May i 5th I examined the nesi and (ound two 

 young birds not more than two days old, so far as 1 was 

 able to judge. 



On June 2nd I saw both the old birds together with- 

 out them having been disturbed from the nest, and about 

 that date I again went up to the nest, when the young were 

 pcn-feathercd all over. On June 22nd I brought the nest- 

 ling:- down and photographed them. 



About ten days later 1 took them away, chained them 

 in box {vide frontispiece) and suspended the box under ver- 

 andah where the old bird's perches were, and all went well. 



Being of the opinion that the troubles from which 

 the 1915 youngster suffered were mostly digestive, and that 



