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more pairs of these great insect destroyers; if more tlian one pair, there will be 

 continual warfare as often as one encroaches on the domains <j[ the other. Their 

 nests are made of strips of vegetable fibre, weeds, etc., and lined with horsehair 

 or catkins. They are sometimes quite bulky and generally very substantially 

 made. The three to tive eggs are laid the latter part of May, and are of a creamy 

 ground color splashed with reddish brown and lilac. Size .1J5 x .70. Data.— 

 Worcester County, Massachusetts, June 8, 18'.t5. 4 eggs. Nest 10 feet from the 

 ground in an apple tree; made of fibres, string, rootlets and weeds, lined with 

 horse hair. Collector, F. C. Clark. 



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 NEST AND EGGS OF KINGBIRD. 



