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the branches, five or six feet from the gTOuiid. These 

 were hard earthen ants' nests, roughly circular in 

 shape and sometimes a yard or more in diameter. In 



ANTS' NEST IN TREE 



several instances I found where parrakeets had bur- 

 rowed deep into them, forming- a chamber at the end 

 of a long, narrow entrance. Whether they did this to 

 feed upon the small architects, or whether they actually 



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