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the murmuring bowers. Its nest is a cup - like, 

 hanging structure, woven of shreds of bark and 

 suspended from the flexuous extremity of a slender 

 limb. The eggs are three to five, white with a 

 few dark specks. 



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The Cedar Waxwing is a beautiful, cinnamon- 

 colored bird, with conspicuous crest and peculiar, 

 vermilion appendages to its wings. It is not 

 common here, but, in August, will come in small 

 numbers about the cherry trees, or call, like a 

 wandering spirit of gentleness, in the lonely cedar 

 swamps. It nests in the cedar bush, or, perhaps, 

 in an orchard, and the eggs are not laid till late 

 in July. 



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Of this graceful family we have four species. 

 The White - bellied Swallow ( Iridoprocene bicolor) 

 is the earliest to arrive. With the first May suns 



