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SUMMER, 1879. 



No. 12. 



Nesting of Swainson's Thrush 

 (Turdus swainsoni). 



Wild roses and other bright colored flowers 

 hung out over the deep, clear water, where 

 they were reflected as in a mirror. Tall 

 tamaracks, covered and fantastically draped 

 'E were "rafting" up a deep and with moss and lichens, rose into the air on 

 beautiful Stillwater of Mill Creek in each side, overshadowing a vast field of im- 

 Herkimer County, New York, penetrable swamp alders, giant ferns and 

 searching for birds and enjoying to the masses of decaying vegetation. Farther 



NEST AND EGGS OF TURDUS SWAINSONI. {% Natural Size.) ' 



fullest extent the bracing air and varied [ 00 rose the outline of a hill, whose forest 

 scenery which every turn of the stream of trees lifted their heads in awful majesty 

 seemed to render more and more enchant- ; above the surrounding landscape. Now 

 iug, while the melody of numerous song- 1 and then some unfamiliar bird would flit 

 sters and the strange notes of birds only to across the water, and, uttering a note of 

 be heard iu the heart of the deep solitudes, surprise, plunge into the bushes ; anon from 

 accorded happily with the surroundings, the forest would come the weird sounds 



