Gray sitting on one of the dead twigs singing for 

 dear life, I watched it until, for some cause, it 

 took flight and disappeared amidst the foliage of 

 a huge oak. For a while I could not realize that 

 it had departed, for its song had made such an 

 impression on my mind that I had forgotten all 

 else. An interesting feature oi the Blue-gray is 

 the readiness with which it leaves its nest when 

 disturbed, it removes the material to a new site. 

 In the reason of '98 I found a pair of these birds 

 building their nest on a gum limb, I sat down on 

 a log, watched them for a few minutes, then left. 

 On returning the next day I found that they were 

 removing the nest, and, on watching them,found 

 that ihey were carrying it to another gum about 

 one hundred yards away. For several days I did 

 not visit the nest, when I did I found that they 

 had again moved the nest, and had carried all 

 the material so they were not at work and I 

 cjuld not find their nest. This season I found a 

 pair building their nest on the limb of an oak 

 about twenty feet high, some mornings afterward 

 I passed the tree and saw an English Sparrow 

 near the nest. On the evening ol the same day 

 I passed the tree again, and on looking at the nest 



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