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NA TURE STUD Y RE VIEW 



[10:4— April, 1914 

 The effect of the 



a creamy white with spots of brown and lilac, 

 color is very pleasing. 



Over in the pasttire you may flush the meadow lark from her 

 well concealed nest. As has been suggested, you need to mark 

 the spot, and then you must search diligently in the stirrounding 

 grass tufts before you locate the nest. Rarely wiU you cause 

 her to rise directly from it. She is a most suspicious bird, and hears 



Fig. 6. Mourning Dove's Nest. Unequal Size Eggs. 



you coming. She will then run some distance from the nest 

 before taking flight, and, of course, away from you. This may 

 enable you to judge somewhat of the position of the nest Look 

 particularly in the tufts of long, dead grass. Here it is now! 

 Tucked away under these long grass blades, it is little wonder that 

 it took so long to locate it ! Over it is a canopy of grass ar^d leaves, 

 thus completely obscuring it, Oxi one side is the opening and one 

 must peer into this before he can see the eggs at alL The nest is 

 cleverly hidden. A slighc depression in the ground makes 



