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height, three in external diameter, but differing from the 

 normal form only in materials of composition. The pro- 

 verbial meadow grasses are absent, and in lieu thereof are 

 the headed stems of such as grow by the roadside, notably 

 conspicuous for their golden brightness in a state of desic- 

 cation. 



DOUBLE NEST OF ORCHARD ORIOLE. 

 Female Sitting, Male Standing Guard. 



More noteworthy, however, than the Nazareth nest, is 

 one that was removed from a silver maple-tree. It is a 

 double structure, composed of long, flexible grasses, and is 

 firmly bound by the same to several small, slender branches. 

 The larger nest, inversely sub-conical, is joined to the smaller, 

 somewhat similarly shaped, but less compact in structure, by 

 ribbons of the same kind of grass that composes the nest. 

 A circular opening, one inch in diameter, is a noticeable 

 feature of the smaller. That the additional structure served 

 some useful purpose there can be no doubt. I am inclined 



