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MY STUDIO NEIGHBORS 



with tender solicitude. The nest is usually so 

 sparse and flimsy an affair that you can see 

 throuQ-h its coarse mesh of sticks from below, the 

 fledglings lying as on a grid- 

 iron or toaster ; and it is, r h. 

 moreover, occasionally so 

 much higher in the 



. ■ centre than 

 at the sides 

 that the chicks tumble 

 out of bed and perish. 

 Still, it is a beginning 

 in the right direction. 

 Yes, it would ap- 

 pear that our American cuckoo is endeavoring to 

 make amends for the sins of its ancestors ; but. 



