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Jay 
I spent some time this forenoon thinning out the trees 
close about the pine near the wood-shed where the Blue Jay 
feeds 
is nesting. One of the birds was on the nest sitting very 
its 
deep within it, her bill pointing almost straight upward. 
sitting 
As I was chopping at an oak within 20 feet of the pine, the 
Mate 
other Jay (the male, I supposed) came to the nest with some¬ 
thing in his bill which he gave to his sitting mate. She 
stood up in the nest to receive it,at the same time quivering 
her wings end uttering a continuous low cheeoing, precisely 
Phoebe's 
like that of a young bird. 
The Phoebes at the Farm began building four or five 
nest at 
days ago under the eaves of the barn 15 or 18 feet above the 
the 
ground. Their nest appeared to be completed to-day and one 
Tara 
of the birds was sitting in it but she flew; out and back 
every few minut e s. 
Lincoln's 
The Lincoln’s Finch which appeared yesterday spent the 
Finch 
whole of to-day in the thicket in front of the cabin in com¬ 
pany with several Swamp Sparrows and White-throats. He chased 
the former from the millet seed but the latter chased him. By 
afternoon he had become so tame and trustful as to emerge 
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from the bushes and feed in the open path where Gilbert and 
I were standing within ten feet of the seed bed. We were very 
near getting a photograph of him, while thus engaged. He 
was singing the Junco song in the forenoon. 
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