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windows. They beat against the glass until utterly 

 dazed, and would have perished there, had I not 

 climbed up later and brought them down. So thou- 

 sands of the migrating birds perish yearly by flying 

 wildly against the dazzling lanterns of the light- 

 houses, and thousands more lose their way in the 

 thick darkness of the stormy nights, or are blown 

 out of their course, and drift away to sea. 



Hasty, careless, miscalculated movements are not 

 as frequent among the careful wild folk as among 

 us, perhaps ; but there is abundant evidence of their 

 occasional occurrence and of their sometimes fatal 

 results. 



Several instances are recorded of birds that have 

 been tangled in the threads of their nests ; and one 

 case of a bluebird that was caught in the flying 

 meshes of an oriole's nest into which it had been 

 spying. 



I once found the mummied body of a chippy twist- 

 ing and swinging in the leafless branches of a peach 

 tree. The little creature was suspended in a web of 

 horsehair about two inches below the nest. It looked 

 as if she had brought a snarled bunch of the hair 

 and left it loose in the twigs. Later on, a careless 



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