. Camps and cruises of an ornithologist, by Frank M. Chapman .. . Landlord and Tenant ing the valley. Here, the rafters divided the beam into tenspaces, all of which, to the Phoebe, evidently looked began a nest in one of these spaces, but on returningwith more building material, missed her aim, so to speak,and began a second nest in another space. This mistakewas repeated until the bird had five nests in process of con-struction at the same time. Probably she would not havecompleted any one of them, if Mr. Burroughs had not cover-ed four with stones. The bird was then forced to focu
. Camps and cruises of an ornithologist, by Frank M. Chapman .. . Landlord and Tenant ing the valley. Here, the rafters divided the beam into tenspaces, all of which, to the Phoebe, evidently looked began a nest in one of these spaces, but on returningwith more building material, missed her aim, so to speak,and began a second nest in another space. This mistakewas repeated until the bird had five nests in process of con-struction at the same time. Probably she would not havecompleted any one of them, if Mr. Burroughs had not cover-ed four with stones. The bird was then forced to focus onthe fifth, which she eventually finished and on which she waspeacefully sitting at the time of my ■■ In the low s\vcci)iiig liinl) of an apiilc trt>e BIRD-NESTING WITH J3URROUGHS 25 Doubtless Mr. Burroughs could have given equally in-teresting accounts of other of his bird neighl)ors to whom heintroduced me that day and the next, and whose portraits Ipresent with only passing comment. The Hummer, for instance, which, with rare considera-tion for the needs of bird photography, had placed her nestin the low sweeping limli of an apple tree, was an old ac-quaintance of his, and no detail of her domestic affairs, from
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