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gray flakes of lichen, the whole bound together 

 with cobweb and other threads from insect spin- 

 dles. So naturtdly does this fairy domicile sit 

 saddled on its gray-barked support as to be all 

 but unnoticeable, not to say invisible. Seen from 



HUMMING BIRD 

 Length 3% inches 



below, it looks exactly like a small knot on the 

 limb; and a lady who once looked over my col- 

 lection of empty nests even remarked that it 

 was strange the lichen should grow so much 

 thicker on the nest than on the bark! 



Two white eggs scarcely larger than peas 



