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must hide yourself most carefully, and withou! 
making the slightest noise (for his sense of 
hearing is very keen) and await his advent 
with all the patience that you can command. 
The hen lays five or six pure white polished 
eggs, ina dark cavity, which the pair generally 
makes for themselves out of some old rotten 
trunk, by continuous pecking with their beaks, 
leaving only a small hole of entrance. The 
eggs are merely desposited on the chips 
within. This arrangement, of course, baffles 
the photographer. 
At last we reached the tree where Jenny 
Wren had built her nest. It was doubtless 
the one chosen for the home from more than 
one that had been begun and left, as 1s 
frequently the case, though no one has as yet 
discovered the reason. What a pretty nest 
it was; and what labour and skill were 
there! The home was large in proportion to 
the birds, and made up of moss and lichens 
glued in one, in a way that no man’s hand 
could copy. It was feather lined within 
to hold the small white red-speckled eggs, 
