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Till-: AMERICAN WATER (%ZEI. 



repeat CI 11 V ti>r tin- sole purimsc of shaking it> wit i)hiniaKc over the 

 mossy nest. 



L'nless we mistake, the bird in the first picture is alntiit t>> visit a nest 

 liehind the waterfall, an<l of such a nest Mr. John Keast Lord says: "I once 

 fountl the nest of the American Dipper imilt amongst the roots of a large 

 cedar-tree that had lloated down the stream and got jammed against the mill- 

 dam of the Hudson Hay Company's old grist mill, at l-'ort Col\ ille. on a irihu- 

 tarv to the upper Columbia River. The water rushing over a jutting ledge 

 of rocks, fonned a small casca<le. that fell like a veil of water before the dip- 

 per's ne.st ; an<l it was curious to see the birds dash thru the waterl'all rather 

 than go in at the sides, and in that 

 way get behind it. For hours I have 

 sat and watched the busy pair, pass- 

 ing in and out thru the fall, with as 

 much apparent ease as an equestrian 

 performer jumps thru a hoop covered 

 with tissue paper. The nest was in- 

 geniously constructed to prevent the 

 spray from wetting the interior, the 

 moss being so worked over the en- 

 trance as to form an admirable ver- 

 andah." 



Of the nest shown in the accom- 

 panying illustration, Mr. .\. W. .\n- 

 thoiiy says that it was completed un- 

 der unusual difficulties. A party of 

 surveyors, requiring tc bridge a 

 stream in eastern Oregon, first laid 

 a sipiarcd stringer. This an (^uzel Taken in on-to 

 promptly .seized upon, and in token of Huaio >)• .^. ii . AHiiwKy. 

 proprietorship began to heap up moss. a.\ u.\siiei.tekku nkst. 



This arrangement did not comjiort 



with business and the nest foundations were brushed aside on two successive 

 mornings. .\ spell of bad weather intervening, the men returned to their work 

 some ilays later to find the completed nest, as shown, completed but still 

 unoccupied. It was necessary to remove this also, but judge of the feelings 

 of the surveyors when. up<in the following morning, they foinid a single 

 white egg resting upon the bare timber! 



