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Wild Birds 



When they do not come to orchards and the neighborhood 

 of houses, Waxwings usually frequent scrubby pastures, selecting 



Fig. 50. Female Cedar-bird prepared to regurgitate food from the gullet. 

 Notice the outlines of the neck, which mark the full throat. ' ' Twenty min- 

 utes later, the last fledgling had left the nest." August 25, 1899. 



the witch-hazel or thorn-apple bushes by preference, and 

 occasionally a small sapling oak or maple. The nest is either 

 set in a fork or saddled to a spreading branch, at a height of 



