A HERMIT'S WILD FRIENDS 



for all birds that frequent my cabin dooryard. 

 The chestnut-sided warbler seemed to appre- 

 ciate my motive and gave me her confidence 

 in return. After the first year I could sit by 

 her nest from the hour the first straw was laid 

 to the day when the young were large enough 



CHESTNUT -SIDED WARBLER. 



to take wing, and she would go on with her 

 domestic affairs without fear. 



During eleven years the bird has con- 

 structed thirteen nests. Two nests were 

 robbed by snakes and were replaced. No two 

 of these nests were alike. All were loosely 

 built, and with the exception of the last were 

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