AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



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perch on the top of some bush and keep up a regular and energetic 

 chirping until you have left the neighborhood; another may be more 

 confiding and if you remain quiet even near the nest, return to take up 

 the household duties at the point where you interrupted them. I was 

 fortunate in finding a nest of a bird of the latter nature. The nest, or 

 what later was to be the nest, was discovered almost with the laying of 

 the first straw. During the two hours following, observations were 

 continued and in this time the nest grew wonderfully. She was the 

 carpenter, Mi. Sparrow's part in the work being to gather his share of 

 the material. Both birds would depart together, but she invariably re- 

 turned first and had her grass ca^-efully and mathematically deposited 

 before he arrived. 



From life bv C. A. Reed. 



CLEANING THE NEST. 



In the course of three weeks, three of the four eggs that she had laid 

 in the completed nest were hatched. When the young were six days 

 old the photographs shown with this were taken. The camera was 

 first placed about four feet from the nest, but was later moved to with- 



