WAX WINGS 
- *Tis said a prince of royal birth 
Was sent to wander o’er the earth — 
In form of bird, yet still retain 
_ His kingly = in ae domain. 
In royal garb you see him seida 
With bars of gold and regal crest, 
— His gentle manners, courtly mien, 
tn all his charming traits are seen. 
He Wiener: his court secrets low, 
_ Meant only for his mate to know, | 
Yet for usurper naught of fear; 
In all bird lore he has no peer. 
| se Moore _ 
A large nest was found one 3 une spread out on the 
upper surface of a fir branch about five feet from the 
ground. It was even nearer a carline that wound around 
the top of a hillina suburb of a town which was growing, — 
as towns do in the Northwest, in mushroom fashion. There 
were no streets, nor pavements, except on maps of that 
region, to cause a shy bird to be wary, and the electric car 
passed so irregularly that owners of the nest were not much © 
put out by its appearance. Yet the conductor could have 
touched the nest, if he had known it was there, as he jangled 
his bell; and the birds that had built it have such a reput- 
ation, in bird books, of shyness in their selection of a nesting 
site that their choice of this place seemed strange. | 
It took a second trip to the locality to flush the lady 
who had moved into the new home so that a Cedar Waxwing 
could be recognized. The word, lady, is used in its old 
_ English sense of gentle, for no other bird more strongly 
a shows high breeding in her manner and dress than does this 
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