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so necessary for the preservation of its home. Such a 
handsome and imposing structure would be far from complete 
were the inside not in keeping with the outside. But the 
birds have left nothing to be desired in this particular. The 
softest and purest of down lines the little bed-chamber, and 
even swells in its lightness till ready to overflow the neat 
circular door-way. 
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GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS. 
Nest the Perfection of Beauty and Symmetry. 
Perhaps the most graceful thing you may ever expect to 
find when on the quest, fitted to be considered the work of 
the fairies, is the pretty lace hammock of the Parula Warbler, 
You must search for it early in June, in remote but thin 
woods, but never far from running water. Often you will 
see it upon a branch overhanging a stream. The slender 
twig of a birch is sometimes chosen for its suspension, the 
terminal spray of a hemlock spruce, or a horizontal branch 
of a white oak. Like a watch-pocket, with the opening in 
