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with white moss, and the arch with similar moss mingled with clusters 

 of green fruit resembling wild grapes. Through and over the covered 

 run play the birds, young and old, of both sexes. A still more inter- 

 esting and characteristic feature in the play-ground of this bird remains. 

 The completion of the massive bower, so laboriously attained, is not 

 sufficient to arrest the architectural* impulse. Scattered immediately 

 around are a number of dwarf, hut-like structures — ' gun57ahs,' they 

 are called by Broadbent, who says he found five of them in a space 

 ten feet in diameter, and observes that they give the spot exactly the 

 appearance of a miniature black's camp. These seem to be built by 

 bending tow^ards each other strong stems of standing grass, and cap- 

 ping them with a horizontal thatch of light tw^igs. " 



SCREECH OWL 

 Flash-light photograph by A. J. "enncck, I-ansdowne, Pa, 



