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BIRDS BUILDING THEIR NESTS. 
Tlio Martins wore busy conveying light layers 
of pine bark to the nesting places which I had 
provided for them. These agile birds fasten 
themselves after the manner of Woodpeckers 
to the towering boles of the pine, and with 
their bills detach bits of bark thin as letter 
paper. Out of this bark they construct the 
foundation and major portion of the body of 
their nests. 
The Martins are building earlier this spring 
than usual. Indeed they arrived two weeks 
earlier than I ever saw them before — the first 
(a male) reaching here the 12tli of February. 
About two feet distant from a pair of Mar- 
tins is an English Sparrow’s nest; yet the birds 
do not annoy one another. Apropos of this 
subject: Last year a little Martin house con- 
taining four rooms, each facing a different 
point of the compass, had three of its rooms 
occupied by Martins, and the fourth one by a 
pair of English Sparrows, all rearing broods at 
the same time; still there was no manifest con- 
tention among the birds. 
Not two rods from the. Martin’s quarters, 
suspended from the branch, of an Oak is a 
gourd in which is a snug nest built by a„ 
pair of Bluebirds. /' 
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