location gives fairly convincing evidence of an 
ability to think and reason as well as to construct. 
Locating the nest is almost as highly important 
as the manner of constructing. With birds the 
quality of fear—the apprehension of danger is 
largely developed. Their first thought or im- 
pulse when selecting a place for their nest is 
safety, for on this depends success or failure in 
establishing a home wherein to propagate a fam- 
ily and thus perpetuate their species. 
Is it not a reflection on the higher intelligence 
of man that as factor in the destruction of our 
beautiful bird life, he ranks first? 
Ye have nests in the mountains, all rugged and stark; 
Ye have nests in the forest, all tangled and dark; 
Ye build and ye brood ’neath the cottagers’ eaves, 
And ye build and ye sleep on the sod with the bonny 
green leaves. 
Where the nest, there the birds’ home. 
The Baltimore oriole, one of our most saga- 
cious birds, hangs its nest preferably in an elm 
tree near the extreme end of a slender pendant 
branch, where it is quite beyond the reach of 
fur or feathered animals with evil intentions, 
such as hawks, owls and climbing rodents. The 
selecting of such site shows not only a clearly 
understood protective method, but sagacity. No 
animal of more than feather weight, even with 
the tree as an accomplice, could disturb the nest 
or its occupants. 
The Indigo bunting, a common but not well- 
known bird, many warblers, and frequently the 
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