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and witli li;)wered head ran tliroiigli the undergrowth 

 with surprising quickness. With thuse which were 

 younger, h(jwovcr, tlic mortality ha.d evidently Leen 

 groat, and, seeing the d(jzens of dead birds on the 

 ground beneath the nest trees from which they had 



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fallen, one questioned whether this habit of nesting 

 high in trees had not, for protective reasons, lieen 

 recerd.ly acquired by a specii's tlie ytmug of which 

 would seem much more at home nearer the ground. 



It was with a delightful sense of tMimpanionship 

 with the birds that T observed them guing and com- 

 ing, feeding tlicir j'onng, (jr resting after the night's 



