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THE WOODLAND APARTMENT. 



The woodland apartment was accidentally discovered be- 

 cause of a feud existing between two of the families re- 

 siding therein. One bright June morning I started on one 

 of my frequent camera-hunting expeditions, my objective 

 point being the home of a pair of ^Vood Thrushes that had 

 kindly placed their nest in a very favorable position in some 

 alders overhanging a beautiful brook. I was forcing my 

 way slowly through a tangled mass of brakes and briers 

 when, a short distance away, I heard the clear, ringing, 

 rollicking song of a House Wren. It was the same wren- 

 song with which I was familiar, full of those bubbling, 

 gurgling tones, but 't stopped abruptly in the middle. In 

 a few moments it sounded again and again the song w.-is 



Figs. 210-211. The wren would alight on the stump and com- 

 mence to sing; Doumy would promptly drive him off. 



