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a fancy to the nest of some other species, as is shown in the illus- 

 tration herewith, of a robin's nest taken over by the doves. 

 In this instance eggs were destroyed so that the pre-empted 

 nest was never fully utilized. The bird nests low, seldom over 

 ten feet above the groimd. The whistling noise of the bird's 

 flight makes it easy to locate the nest after they are driven off 

 by your approach. 



Fig. 9. The Dainty Nest of the Chipping Sparrow. 



The brown thresher builds its nest low in a thicket or low grow- 

 ing tree. A thick tangle is most attractive, and if it be of the 

 thorny sort, so much the better. A gooseberry bush or hawthdm 

 seem especially suited to them. Having chosen the site, there is 

 laid a broad foundation of twigs, closely interlocked, surmoiuited 

 by a well moulded cup of finer material, the whole lined with 

 fine rootlets and leaves. Taken together, it is a well constructed 

 nest, as is evidenced by the fact that they last so long. The eggs 



