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fur separate spliercs : she ti> skulk and hide and esca|)e tlie hostile eye in the 

 (lischarfje of her niaternal duties; he to lose himself against the blue of 

 heaven, as he sings reassuringly from a tree-top, or sends down notes of 

 warning upon the approach of danger. 



'Pile song of the Lazuli Hunting is a r.imhling warl)le. not unlike that of 

 ilie Imligo liunting (C. lyancaj. hut somewhat less energetic. Its brief 



course rises and falls in short 

 cadences and ends with a hasty 

 jumhle of unfinished notes, as tho 

 the singer were out of breath. 

 .Moreover, the bird does not take 

 his task very seriously, ami he docs 

 not burden the mid-day air with 

 incessant song, as does his tireless 

 cousin. 



Somewhere in the shrubbery and 

 tangle, whether of sa])lings. berry- 

 bushes, roses, ferns, or weeds, a 

 rather bulky nest is built about an 

 upright fork, at a height of two 

 or three feet from the ground. A 

 nest observed in Yakima County 

 was begun on the 19th of June and 

 practically completed by the after- 

 noon of the following day. — this 

 altho the first egg was not laid 

 until the 26th. "Hem])." milkweed 

 fibers, and dried grasses were used 

 in construction, and there was an 

 elalxirate lining of horse-hair ( [xxir 

 dears: what will they do when the 

 automobile has fully supplanted the 

 horse?). 



A)iitviu] means pleasant, but the 

 female an)enity is anything else, 

 when her fancied rights of maternity are as.sailed. Her vocabulary is 

 limited, to be sure, to a single note, but her repeated chil^ is expressive of 

 all wonls in ilis from distrust to distress and violent disapjjrobation. 



nr Srokanr. Pliola by l-rcd S. 



A I.AZII.I nUNTINC'S NEST. 



