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July 2G . 
(NO. 2} 
Mass. Zenaida macroura. 
Concord.- and the male parent from adjacent trees near at hand, 1)0 vel ' s 
Concealing myself as well as I could under a spreading pine nest. 
I watched the nest for over an hour hoping to see the young fed 
hut the mother bird appeared only once and then apparently dis- 
covered me for after perching for a moment on a dead pine she 
flew away and did not again return. The young still sit per- 
fectly motionless. During the whole time that I was watching 
them to-day neither moved in the least as far as I could detect 
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July 29. The Dove’s nest was empty at 3 P. M. to-day. There were 
only a few stray feathers in the nest but the interstices be- 
tween the sticks were filled, the bottom of the nest paved, and 
the ground beneath over a space of five or six square yards 
thickly sprinkled with dried dung in the form of pellets which 
closely resembled those of the Domestic Pigeon. I found one of 
the egg shells- or at least the shells of a Dove's egg- under 
an oak about 50 yards from the nest whither I concluded it had 
been taken by the parent when the young were hatched. 
My last visit to this nest was at about 5 o'clock on the 
afternoon of July 27th. The young were then sitting crouched 
in their usual motionless fashion on the platform of sticks, 
which they almost completely covered for one bird was fully 
grown and feathered and the other nearly so, the difference in 
size between the two being much less than it was a week ago. 
As there were no signs to-day of anything wrong having occurred 
at or near the nest i infer the young left it in peace and 
