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AMERIOAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



While the Turtle Dove is too lazy or too careless to expend much 

 energy in making a nest, yet you find some that are much better than 

 others. 



While passing under a peach tree about the first of July, a sudden 

 whistle of wings led me to believe that a Dove's nest was just over my 

 head. Glancing upward I saw the nest that had just been vacated. 

 But surely, I thought, it does not belong to a dove. Although resting 

 on the branches yet it was of good depth and quite substantially built. 



YOUNG MOURNING DOVES. 



Drawing the limb down I found the nest was composed of weeds, 

 weather-beaten corn-husks and grass; and the pepper grass and grass 

 were so arranged as to form a good lining. But dove's nest it was. 

 It contained two beautiful eggs which were of a very faint pink hue. 

 In a few days, however, they were of the regulation white color. 



Doves are not particular as to the kind of material for the nest. They 

 perhaps more often pile loosely together a few small twigs or sticks, 

 and on top of these place a few fine weeds- But you may come upon 

 one made entirely of a tough sort of vine that twines over the weeds 



