AND THEIR NEIGHBORS. 
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placed at the foot of a small cedar-bush ; this 
they lined with soft leaves and grasses, and, 
when it was finished, Mrs. Towhee laid five 
pretty eggs, each of a pale bluish-white color, 
and covered with fine dots of brown and red. 
The Golden-crowned Thrushes completed 
their nest, building up the sides and roofing 
them over in a form like an old fashioned 
oven ; the likeness was so great, that persons 
who happened to see tlie fabric, noticing its 
shape, called the Thrushes who built it Oven 
Birds,” and In many localities their descend- 
ants go by the same name to this day. Mrs. 
Golden Crown laid four beautiful white eggs, 
so thin that their contents almost showed 
through them, and tinged them with a beauti- 
ful roseate hue. All these eggs were prettily 
spotted witli dots of reddish brown, which 
w^ere scattered over their entire surface. 
All the neighboring birds had, by this time, 
laid their eggs, and were busily employed in 
incubating, or in feeding their young that had 
already hatched. 
Bnbnliiik every morning mounted his favor- 
