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CostA’s HuMMING-BIRD. 
nest which was built in the middle of a cactus whose 
needles, or thorns, are sometimes an inch long. 
So 
CHAPTER XVIII. 
SOME OTHER BIRDS AT WORK. 
Not many of the birds in our yard are quarrelsome. 
They seem to respect one another’s rights, especially 
at nesting time. It is not so much our business to tell 
bad or unpleasant things about birds, as to tell what is 
