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148 A DRAMA AND TRAGEDY 
paired in the first instance? Mrs. B. No. 2 
succeeded in checkmating her rival, but was 
not successful in rearing her own brood! 
Perhaps a righteous retribution for her cruel 
act! The bullfinch has been described in 
Part Il and a plate of a nest in a deodora which 
does not show the nest well is given on p. 107 
(Part, 11)... but ithisone) illustrates thesenp 
formation, and the relative size of the nest. 
There was no evidence, however, of any special 
platform to the nest described in some books 
as being peculiar to the bullfinch. We see 
here, too, once again how a bird often utilizes 
materials that are close to hand for the pur- 
pose of building (compare nest of robin, Part 
II, p. 2). There must be incidents similar 
to what I have just related in wild bird life. 
It is very rare, however, to find dead birds 
(or animals) lying about, for Nature is her own 
scavenger as I have before remarked. 
