316 THE PHC:BE. 
Nesting is, of course, the absorbing business of all migrant birds during 
their summer residence, but in few of them is devotion to the rearing of young, 
and attachment to a chosen locality carried to a higher degree than in the case 
of Phoebe. ‘Two or three broods are often raised by these birds in a season, 
and the same pair will return to a favorite culvert or outbuilding year after 
year. A recent writer tells of a pair which built nests along the lintel of a 
door for six successive years, until the place was crowded full of nests in 
various degrees of preservation. 
Photo by Rev. W. F. Henninger. 
PHQ@BE’S NEST IN COFFEE POT. 
Formerly Phcebes nested entirely along streams, placing their nest on a 
convenient ledge of rock jutting out from some moss-covered bank, which was 
kept damp by the spray of falling water; or else attaching them to the sides 
of small caves. ‘This habit still persists in many parts of our state, and nests 
are to be commonly found along shale-cliffs and in sand-stone grottoes or old 
quarry-holes. But Phoebes have also adopted the ways of civilization, and 
