BIRDS OF PEASEMARSH 



note of its song. Their nests are shaped like 

 little cups and fastened to a twig or the end of 

 a forked branch in a low tree. The nest in the 

 illustration was found in a pear tree by the 

 boys who, when picking pears, were attracted 

 to it by the narrow strips of birch bark so fan- 

 tastically woven in it. Surely they are artists 

 to have designed such a home. 



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