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bird return to its nest after once fairly leaving it) and 
that their parents (I did not see either of the old birds) 
wexe not present to guide and encourage them, it is indeed 
remarkable that they should havw launched into the air 
with such entire apparent confidence and should have flown 
so swiftly and so far. What I expected was to see them 
flutter clumsily for a few yards and then come to the ground 
or strike into the branches of the nearest tree. The sharp, 
decided turn around the pine was especially impressive. Their 
wings produced none of the whistling sound made by old 
birds; after the preliminary flapping there wan only a flut¬ 
tering like that of a young Grouse. 
The nest was very foul indeed; in fact, the entire 
top of the platform was a sticky mass of excrement. 
It will be remembered that I found this nest 
August 36 when it held two eggs which looked dark and were 
evidently far advanced in incubation. They were replaced 
by two young birds on my next visit, August 30. The female 
( I did not once see the male near this nest) was invariably 
brooding the young whenever I looked at the nest up to 
September 8tjh, when the young were two-thirds grown. I did 
not once see the mother bird after this date, although I 
watched the nest twice for more than an hour. 
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