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the niurmuring bowers. Its nest is a cup -like, 

 hanging structure, woven of shreds of hark and 

 suspended from the flexuous extremity of a slender 

 hmh. 'I'h- eggs are three to five, white with a 

 few dark specks. 



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The Cedar VVaxwing is a beautiful, rinnamon- 

 colored bird, with conspicuous crest and peculiar, 

 vermilion appendag .s to its wings. It is not 

 common here, but,' in August, will come in small 

 numbers about the cherry trees, or call, like a 

 wandering si)irit of gentleness, in the lonelv cedar 

 swamps. It nests in the cedar bush, or, ])erhaps, 

 in an orchard, and the eggs are not laid till late 

 in July. 



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Of this graceful family we liave four sjjecies. 

 The White -bellied Swallow (Iridoprocenc hicolor) 

 IS the earliest to arrive. With the first .May suns 



