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the situation. In the following incident 

 there was apparently no such necessity. 

 Though I am under the impression of hav- 

 ing seen a few other similar acts, in no 

 other case were the details so striking as 

 in this one at Kingston, N. Y., on May 18. 



A pair of Bluebirds had a nest in a low, 

 hollow stump on the edge of a pond. From 

 the direction of this stump I saw the dull- 

 colored female fly to an orchard nearby. 

 Alighting on the upper branch of an apple 

 tree, she called repeatedly, using exactly 



BLUEBIRD FEEDING ITS MATE 

 Drawn from nature by Edmund J. Sawyer 



