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tie, or rather, it resembles a baby 

 nursing bottle. The nest is built 

 in its flat side between the cactus 

 leaves, etc., about ten or twelve 

 inches in size, and about half as 

 broad. The eggs, numbering four 

 to six, are of white color, but dot- 

 ted throughout with salmonoid 

 specks." * * i 



' ' Sennett found the cactus wren 

 first in Hidalgo, Texas, about one 



hundred miles' beyond the outlet 

 of the Rio Grande, into the Gulf of 

 Mexico, where the hilly region^ 

 are thickly studded with cacti. 

 The nests always were very large, 

 generally built inside the fig cac- 

 tus leaves, where they were easy 

 to find. It's song is very loud and 

 shrill" and Sennett noticed how 

 they gathered the seed kernels of 

 the globular ground cacti, and, 











The Writer and a Friend in Midst Cactus Jungles Inspecting a Cactus Wren Nest. 

 (A Self-Made Photo, November, 1913.) 



