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height, three in external diameter, but differing from the 
normal form only in materials of composition. The pro- 
verbial meadow grasses are absent, and in lieu thereof are 
the headed stems of such as grow by the roadside, notably 
conspicuous for their golden brightness in a state of desic- 
cation. 
DOUBLE NEST OF ORCHARD ORIOLE. 
Female Sitting, Male Standing Guard. 
More noteworthy, however, than the Nazareth nest, is 
one that was removed from a silver maple-tree. It is a 
double structure, composed of long, flexible grasses, and is 
firmly bound by the same to several small, slender branches. 
The larger nest, inversely sub-conical, is joined to the smaller, 
somewhat similarly shaped, but less compact in structure, by 
ribbons of the same kind of grass that composes the nest. 
A circular opening, one inch in diameter, is a noticeable 
feature of the smaller. That the additional structure served 
some useful purpose there can be no doubt. I am inclined 
