OUR HOME BIRDS. 
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she is very bright and vivacious, flourishing about in 
the air and singing at intervals, while she catches 
flies in a very expert manner, and seems to be enjoy- 
ing herself generally. But in a short time she re- 
tires into private life and to the cares of a household, 
and is seldom seen except to dart from her moss- 
covered nest beneath some bridge or shelving cliff. 
“ This same nest is beautifully made of moss, held 
together with mud ; it is large and compact, and 
neatly lined with flax and horse-hair. It has been 
found in various queer places — on some projecting 
part under a bridge, in a cave, in an open well, often 
under a shed, in the low eaves of a cottage, and 
in various other nooks. There are five pure-white 
eggs, with two or three dots of red near the large 
end ; and two or three broods of pewees are some- 
times reared in a season.” 
