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AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



of inspection at the instant the bulb was pressed. As soon as she 

 heard the click of the opening shutter, she quickly raised her head to 

 the position that is clearly shown. 



Another Robin has built her nest for three consecutive years on the 

 top of a blind, under the front 

 piazza of a house that is practic- 

 ally in the heart of a city of a hun- 

 dred and twenty-five thousand in- 

 liabitants. She chose the window 

 nearest the front door. The first 

 year the nest was located on the 

 top of the blind that was nearest 

 the door, but for the last two years 

 she has chosen the farther one. 

 She chose this location and held 

 to it in spite of the fact that a 

 good deal of the time some one 

 was sitting on the piazza directly 

 under the nest, or children were 

 playing about the house- 



She soon came to know those who 

 lived in the house and paid no at- 

 tention to them when they sat be- 

 low watching her, but with strang- 

 ers she was more wary and would 

 watch them for a long while before 

 returning to the nest. I first made 

 the acquaintance of these birds on 

 the day that the young left the 

 nest. A warning came over the 

 telephone the evening previous 

 that the young were showing signs 

 of uneasiness and stretching their 

 wings as though wondering 

 whether they were strong enough 

 to support them in the air. When 

 I appeared the next morning one 

 of the young had already left the 

 nest, and when I pointed the cam- 

 era in the direction of the nest, 

 another also took wing and under 

 the skillful guidance and encour- 



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