A SUBURBAN ESTATE 



nest is situated. This additional one is nearly 

 always a very clumsy structure, and is never used for 

 eggs. Why these are made is a puzzling question. 

 The birds probably 

 begin them and then 

 find that the situation 

 is not suitable, and 

 commence elsewhere; 

 yet this does not 

 account for the gar- 

 den - warbler nearly 

 always doing so. 

 Perhaps, when the 

 nest proper is com- 

 pleted, the male, not 

 having so much to 

 do, commences build- 

 ing on his own ac- 

 count. 



I like to be among 

 the warblers in 

 spring. A small 

 suburban wood in 

 the early morning 

 contains such a con- 

 cert of song and melody, that few, except those 

 that have been among them at sunrise, have any 

 idea of the charm. When the first beams of the 



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