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NksT8 IND NESTING 

 The 1 louse Pinch nests in vines about houses, in sheltered COP- 



new and awnings of building, u> baskets hung on houses, and, 

 in fact, in any place of vantage about a building It also, 

 though rarely*, builds in trees, as high in one instance as twentj 

 feet above the ground; in bushes; and in years past (1894) when 

 the electric arc street lights were covered by a conical metal hood, 

 :i number of nests were soon on the cross piece under the hood 

 Nests have boon observed in globes, when partly broken, sur- 

 rounding incandescent lamps hanging under verandas and 



These nests were frequently found in verj noisy anil 

 conspicuous places, i i . the busy entrance to ■ large hospital. A 

 pan- had a uost. during the past spring, in one of two old-fashioned 

 square lantern-shaped entrance lamps on the University Club, 

 in each of which were two incandescent lamps burning brightly 

 until past midnight. The incubating female was not disturbed in 

 (ho least by this light, nor by the numerous visitors to the dub 

 going by her nest 



The writer has onl\ once noticed the species use an old nest of 

 some other species for nesting purposes, in which case i pair oi 

 House Pinches rdined an old Robin's uost ami used it to raise a 



.-.! h will thus be seen that there is • considerable d 

 flexibility in the House Finch's ntdinoation traits, a flexibility 

 which probably has helped very largely toward the bird's great 



tvinced that nesting hoars a large relation 

 swi v . ondttions, being controlled largely, perhaps entirely, 

 by the temperatures prevailing over a more or loss extended time. 

 \ j frequently in Denver, N >vember are remark) 



mild, and during such mild spells young Pinches, in pairs, have been 

 ng the hir\l boxes on the house, and on a tea w 

 oher ami November a pair of young 

 been seen making al\ nest building. This 



her on the nesting ins 

 made mo he hirvls during warm spoils 



in mid-winter, when 





