A WINTER BIRD'S-NEST 233 



nest composed of cherry-pits and hazel-nuts even 

 though the nest be several feet above the ground, and 

 far out upon a slender twig, as I have found it we 

 must look elsewhere for our bird, especially when we 

 find all the nuts to have been emptied through small 

 round holes in their sides, and the tiny grooves of sharp 

 teeth marking the edges of the shells. 



