NESTLINGS OF FOREST AND MARSH 
gone farther afield, where I did not follow 
them. 
But there was still an unhatched egg in 
the nest, and the small boy again climbed 
after it. To our surprise we found this 
egg contained a young bird nearly ready to 
hatch, and apparently it had been alive 
when the mother left the nest the day be- 
fore. This irregularity is by no means rare 
among woodpeckers, but I had not found 
it before in the robin family. 
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