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Orioles 
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Ho less than three pairs of Orioles are building in | 
the elms on the Farm, a number never before equaled, I think, 
since I have (been) around the place. One nest (found to-day) 
is in an elm in front of the bungalow at the back end of the 
garden, another in the young elm Just at the rear of the house, 
the third in the big drooping elm in our door-yard (a out 
30 yards from the second nest and 100 yards from the first). 
The first two nests were begun, I should judge, on 
the 19th. 2 saw the bird begin the third yesterday morning 
a out 8 c*clock. As 2 was standing under the tree, she came 
with a single strand (it looked like a strand of.weed fibre) 
a sd looped it between two twigs not five feet above my head. 
I could see distinctly that it m o dv- very, firiit. the 
bird knotted one end about the t Jig aed pulled at it long 
a 
and hard several tines, then secured the >ther end in the 
s-une way. Che -forked at leant 5 minutes before she seemed 
satisfied. It was most interesting to sec her push and 
draw the end under and over the atrand and %■ 'ig, using her 
sharp bill most deftly. die.a she pulled at the strand to 
ti - ..'.ten the k iot, she put forth her utmost strength, tugging 
and tugging' and ever/ now end then flapping her ? f lngs as 
she throw her head aid b dy b ckward, Hhsri finally secured. 
ihe strand hua.; in a wide, deep loop like this 
twig 
twig 
strand 
