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Wild Birds 



first flight, landing in the grass not many feet away. They would 

 run like mice, and their brown protective coloring, exactly like 



Fig. 32. Tent over raft in water of swamp beside Redwing Blackbird's 

 nest. See Figs. 33 and 34, No. a of table. 



that of the old birds, made it no easy matter to recover them 

 when once at liberty. 



On the fifth day of July a nest of three young Blackbirds 

 (No. 2 of the table), aged five days, was found on the edge of 

 what was once an alder swamp, close to the town and the " Cove " 

 made by the Winnipiseogee River in Northfield. It was fixed 



