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pressure to tilt some of them on one side, and it is a wonder sometimes how the 
four or five young manage to keep right side up. (See fig. 27.) These nests 
are composed almost entirely of the dead blades and culms of the sedge grow- 
Fig. 29. NESTING SITE OF MERRILL SONG SPARROW IN CLUMP OF SEDGE 
(WHERE MARKED WITH WHITE CROSS). VIEW TOWARDS THE EAST; PHO- 
TOGRAPHED JUNE 15, 1918. 
ing about the nesting site and are lined with a few fine dry grasses and horse- 
hair brought from a distance. While a great many song birds depend on foli- 
age of some kind for concealment of their nests, the Merrill Song Sparrow 
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