. Bird-lore . e nest,with the female sitting on it and looking at me. It was not over two feet from myface, yet she stayed on the nest until Iput forth my hand to touch her. The nestwas empty, but evidently completed. Twas happy, as it does one good to find some-thing as uncommon as the nest of this bird,and for the first time. On my way backfrom the two-hours paddle, I again lookedin the nest, and found one egg, pinkishwhite, and speckled sparsely at the largerend with reddish brown. I visited thisnest every day, but the bird laid an eggonly every other day until she had three,then waited two
. Bird-lore . e nest,with the female sitting on it and looking at me. It was not over two feet from myface, yet she stayed on the nest until Iput forth my hand to touch her. The nestwas empty, but evidently completed. Twas happy, as it does one good to find some-thing as uncommon as the nest of this bird,and for the first time. On my way backfrom the two-hours paddle, I again lookedin the nest, and found one egg, pinkishwhite, and speckled sparsely at the largerend with reddish brown. I visited thisnest every day, but the bird laid an eggonly every other day until she had three,then waited two whole days before begin-ning incubation. The nest was pensile,like all Vireos nests, but not nearly sodeep as most, and made entirely of dry-seaweed, with a few pieces of palmettofiber and one small feather woven in theside; it was lined nicely with fine, drygrass, and one or two pine-needles. Icould stay there only a few days after thefull set was laid. This nest was abouttwenty miles south of the birds most. NEST AND EGGS OF THE SWALLOW-TAILED KITE The Audubon Societies 475
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