A Goldfinch Study 



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uttered a peculiar twitter, and she would at once answer him with about the 

 same notes; sometimes leaving the nest and flying to a near-by tree to be fed 

 there, but usually she would remain on the nest and wait for him to bring 

 the food to her. 



On August 18 I removed the six youngsters from the nest, and, after 

 arranging them on a suitable perch, made the pictures as herewith 

 reproduced, showing them alone, also with the old birds on the same perch. 

 When I attempted to replace the young in the nest I found that to get 

 them all back as they were at first was an impossibility, so I had to arrange 

 them as well as possible, some of them being in the nest and others perched 

 on the sides. A few days later 1 visited this nest, and found them none the 

 worse for the disturbance 1 had caused them a few days previous. They 

 were now ready to leave their home, and did so when I approached too 

 near, all flying into the near-by bushes. 



GOLDFINCH ON NEST, BROODrNG YOUNG 



