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THE SOOTY FOX SI 'ARK' 



UW 



those arc tlic t-ggs of Talibalililclitth, llif otlier Song Sparrow wc told you 

 about. " The lx>vs were near enough riglil : the F<ix S]>arrow is for all the 

 ordinary world like a Song Sparrow; and I venture that not a dozen white 

 lx>ys in Washington ever saw the bird itself, let alone <listinguishing it by 

 name. 



The eg<;s referred to were found ;iniid n)o--t romantic surrotindinf,'*. on 



/'/loio by the .Hulhar. 

 .NEST OF SOOTY I-0.\ SI'.VKKOW I.\ FKRX CLL.MP. 



IKSr ITSELF IS ALUOST IKVISKLE BECAVSl BUIIIED IN MOSS AKD TtMH LEAVES. 



a sea-girt islet a mile or two out from the Pacific shore. The island is 

 given over to sea-birds, and tiiese nest uixrn its precipitous sides to the 

 number of thousands; but the center of the rock is crowned with a grove 

 of spruce trees, which overshadow a dense growth of salmon-berry bushes 

 In a duni]) of the latter at a height of six feet was ])laced a very bulky but 

 unusually handsome nest, which held, in the really tiny cup which occupies 

 the upper center of the structure, three eggs of a greenish blue color heavily 

 sjxitted and marbled witii warm browns. The nest measures externally eight 

 and ten inches in widtli, internally two; in dei)tb four inches outside and 

 only one and a half inside. It is coiu])osed diietly of green mosses set in 



