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Fig. 138. NEST OP CHIPPING SPARROW. 



They build most frequently in orchard trees; the eggs are pale 

 blue ivith black specks. 



through the same needles that protected them from the 

 breezes that always swept across the top of the hill. The 

 nest was made of small black rootlets and lined with the 

 horsehair that is ever-present in nests of Chipping Spar- 

 rows. Besides the four young there was, in the nest, one 

 egg, pale blue with small black specks on the large end, 

 which had not hatched. 



The male Chippy returned to the nest within five minutes 

 after the camera had been focussed. We used no tent nor 

 concealment of any kind, — simply stood behind the camera 



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