Rare and Curious Nests. 



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so necessary for the preservation of its home. Such a 

 handsome and imposing structure would be far from complete 

 were the inside not in keeping with the outside. But the 

 birds have left nothing to be desired in this particular. The 

 softest and purest of down lines the little bed-chamber, and 

 even swells in its lightness till ready to overflow the neat 

 circular door-way. 



GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS. 

 Nest the Perfection of Beauty and Symmetry. 



Perhaps the most graceful thing you may ever expect to 

 find when on the quest, fitted to be considered the work of 

 the fairies, is the pretty lace hammock of the Parula Warbler, 

 You must search for it early in June, in remote but thin 

 woods, but never far from running water. Often you will 

 see it upon a branch overhanging a stream. The slender 

 twig of a birch is sometimes chosen for its suspension, the 

 terminal spray of a hemlock spruce, or a horizontal branch 

 of a white oak. Like a watch-pocket, with the opening in 



