. The century illustrated monthly magazine . ng nest materials. They are awkwardupon the ground and awkward upon the tree, being unable to perchupon a limb, exceptlengthwise of it. The song and gamebirds lay pointed eggs,but the night birds layround or elliptical egg-collectorsometimes stimulatesa bird to lay an un-A youth, whose truth-fulness I do not doubt, told me he onceinduced a high-hole to lay twenty-nine eggs,by robbing her of an egg each day. The eggsbecame smaller and smaller, till the twenty-ninth one was only the size of a chippies this point the bird gave up the co
. The century illustrated monthly magazine . ng nest materials. They are awkwardupon the ground and awkward upon the tree, being unable to perchupon a limb, exceptlengthwise of it. The song and gamebirds lay pointed eggs,but the night birds layround or elliptical egg-collectorsometimes stimulatesa bird to lay an un-A youth, whose truth-fulness I do not doubt, told me he onceinduced a high-hole to lay twenty-nine eggs,by robbing her of an egg each day. The eggsbecame smaller and smaller, till the twenty-ninth one was only the size of a chippies this point the bird gave up the contest. There is a last egg of summer as well as afirst egg of spring, but one cannot name eitherwith much confidence. Both the robin andthe chippie sometimes rear a third brood inAugust, but the birds that delay their nestingtill midsummer are the goldfinch and thecedar-bird, the former waiting for the thistleto ripen its seeds, and the latter probably forthe appearance of certain insects which ittakes on the wing. Often the cedar-bird does. Cedar-bird. usual number of eggs. not build till August, and will line its nest withwool if it can get it, even in this sultry eggs are marked and colored as if a whiteegg were to be spotted with brown, then col-ored a pale blue, then again sharply dotted orblotched with blackish or purplish spots. But the most common August nest withme—early August—is that of the Americangoldfinch, better known as the yellow-bird,—a deep, snug, compact nest, with no loose endshanging, placed in the fork of a small limbof an apple-tree, peach-tree, or ornamentalshade-tree. The eggs are a faint the female is sitting, the male feedsher regularly. She calls to him on his ap-proach, or when she hears his voice passingby, in the most affectionate, feminine, child-
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