. The Oist . would, in the hole from which thebird had just flown. It was about two feet About the first of last June while passingby a small thicket of alder bushes, I dis- deep and the bottom was lined with dried covered a nest of the Yellow Warbler. Asgrass, cow-hair, &c. I did not notice any i it contained no eggs, I left it, in about asnake-skin, which however, I might have ; week visiting it again, but still it containedoverlooked in my haste. It contained three no eggs. I took it home and on close ex-eggs. The uest was not more than twenty amituition found with surprise two nests in-rod
. The Oist . would, in the hole from which thebird had just flown. It was about two feet About the first of last June while passingby a small thicket of alder bushes, I dis- deep and the bottom was lined with dried covered a nest of the Yellow Warbler. Asgrass, cow-hair, &c. I did not notice any i it contained no eggs, I left it, in about asnake-skin, which however, I might have ; week visiting it again, but still it containedoverlooked in my haste. It contained three no eggs. I took it home and on close ex-eggs. The uest was not more than twenty amituition found with surprise two nests in-rods from a farm-house, and about nine feet stead of one. One fitted closely inside offrom the ground. We did not take the the other, so as to have the appearance of nest, as we supposed we should be able toobtain another set; but on returning a weekafter we found the birds had deserted. The one. The under nest contained three eggsof the AVarbler and one of the Cow-bunt-ing. W. B. Dickinson. 60 THE OOLOGIST. \f ^ Tfie ©«roijtst FOURTH PUBLICATION TEAR. MARCH, 1879. SUBJECTS OOLOGIOALLY CONSIDEEED. //. CONFIDENCE AND ADAPT-ATION. T^HERE is a remarkably close relation ofthe confidence displayed by birds, withthe adaptation of varions places to the re-quirements of nest-building ; and we areirequeutly obliged to consider both togeth-«M- as inseparable. Whether a certain pairof birds act out of desire ibr protection, foradvantage in situation, or in some cases,from compulsion, there is shown in an un-usual placing of the nest in proximity topopulated districts, houses, or window-sills,a perception of the advantage thus to begained, which we might do well to term,accommodatio covfidentia nata. Good ex-amples of this fact are brought to our no-tice every year, in the case of the semi-do-mesticated birds which frequent our lawnsand gardens in the summer season ; but assuch, and being accustomed to turning togood account all manner of positions fortheir nests, we are tempted to, and ge
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