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No. 428—Hermit Thrush on Nest 
—Photo by Verdi Burtch. 
lined with dead pine leaves and fine 
black reotlets, with green moss woven 
in around the edge. It was placed in 
the dead leaves ten feet from the gul- 
ly bottom and was so well concealed 
that I would not have seen it had the 
bird not flushed. 
Verdi Burtch, Branchport, N. Y. 
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in birds. 
No, 42—Nest and Eggs of Hermit 
Thrush 
—Photo by Verdi Burtch. 
Birds of California in Relation to the 
Fruit Industry. 
F. E. Beal, Part 2. 
We are in receipt of Part 2 of this 
valuable work from the Department 
of Agriculture. This reviews the Cali- 
fornia Quail, the Woodpeckers, the 
Flycatchers, the Horned Lark, the 
Jays, the Blackbirds, the Sparrows, 
and contains six high grade colored 
plates of the California Quail, the 
Arkansas Kingbird, California Jay, 
Blackbird, Bullock Oriole 
and Green-backed Goldfinch. It is a 
splendid resume of the subject sought 
Brewer’s 
to be covered, and is a credit to those 
respensible for its appearance; some- 
thing which cannot be said of all gov- 
ernment publications. 
