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AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 





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Photo from life by I. E. Hess. 



second plate he has induced Mrs. Loggerhead to defy all danger and 

 return to the little ones. He sits by her side however ready to protect 

 her from any peril. 



The male proves an admirable character in his home-life. He helps 

 to build the home and is a constant companion of his mate during incu- 

 bation. He brings her food while she is setting or temporarily relieves 

 her of the task. He helps in feeding and rearing the young and taken 

 all together is a model and exemplary husband whose virtues far out- 

 number and exceed his faults. The number of eggs deposited and 

 constituting a set is usually six, although sets of live and seven are 

 occasionally found. So persistent are the Loggerheads in the deter- 

 mination to rear a family that third and fourth nests will be built and 

 full sets deposited, if their previous efforts have proved unavailing. 

 So attached does a pair become to a certain locality that, should their 

 favorite hedge-rows be uprooted and their nesting sites thereby de- 

 stroyed, they will often be found to change their fixed ideas regarding 



sites, and build in orchard trees rather than leave the vicinity. 



Isaac E. Hess, Philo, Ills. 



