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Chaffinch which did not object, to being caught on 

 her nest by a, boy, yet would not allow us to pholo 

 graph her. We tried morning, noon, and night, in 

 vain. I have known a bird of this species have every 

 feather in her tail pulled out, whilst sitting on her 

 eggs, by a mischievous 

 lad who tried to catch 

 her, and yet bring olV 

 her young. 



Her nest was so in- 

 securely allixed against 

 the trunk of a. lingo tree 

 that it, began to topple 

 over directly she com- 

 menced to sit, and would 

 undoubtedly have fallen 

 had not my brother 

 fastened it up by driv- 

 ing a, pin or two through 

 its side into the bark of 

 the tree. 



I remember a, case of 

 a, Tree ( Yeeper being 

 caught on her nest,, situ- 

 ated behind a piece of 

 loose bark hanging to 

 the trunk of a light- 

 ning-struck elm, and convoyed half a mil*' 

 a man's jacket pocket in order that she m 

 be shown to a little sick boy who took an intelli- 

 gent interest, in birds. Upon being returned, she 

 resumed her duties towards her young as if nothing 

 whatever had happened. Wo afterwards photo- 

 graphed one of her young ones a,s it, left, the nont 

 and begun to climb up the bark of the tree in 

 which it had been bred. 



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