Nesting Time. 



hee hides away her nest of speckled 

 eggs so carefully upon the ground that 

 it is exceedingly difficult to discover. 

 The kingbird's nest is a rather large 

 affair, placed upon a limb of a tree, and 

 containing four or five white eggs 

 strongly marked with brown spots. 

 The ash-throated flycatcher nests in a 

 deserted flicker's hole or in a hollow 

 stump, and has the singular habit of 

 almost invariably adorning its home 

 with the cast-off skin of a snake. The 

 eggs are buffy, heavily scrawled with 

 brown or purplish lines. 



We have now scanned the list of 

 breeding birds so far as I have met 

 with them about Berkeley. During 

 the month of June the work of rearing 

 a family still continues, and in July 

 many species are busy with their second 

 brood. It is a season of intense anxiety 

 and care to the parents, and fortunate 

 are they who escape the vigilance of 

 cats, small boys, and other plunderers. 

 Many eggs never hatch, and many of 



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