. Bird lore . s weather strip over the topedge of a wicket door, as here shown in aphotograph by Mr. Winfred Smith. Afterthe nest was deserted it was taken down andpresented to the American Museum ofNatural History. The distance from thetop of the ledge to under eaves is abouteighteen inches. This distance was reachedby building a cylinder tube of clay workedup with short straw, and filled with strawup to a height where it would just haveroom enough to build the nest on top; allof which was perfectly done, and thebirds had the happy satisfaction of rearing their young on this ingenious constru
. Bird lore . s weather strip over the topedge of a wicket door, as here shown in aphotograph by Mr. Winfred Smith. Afterthe nest was deserted it was taken down andpresented to the American Museum ofNatural History. The distance from thetop of the ledge to under eaves is abouteighteen inches. This distance was reachedby building a cylinder tube of clay workedup with short straw, and filled with strawup to a height where it would just haveroom enough to build the nest on top; allof which was perfectly done, and thebirds had the happy satisfaction of rearing their young on this ingenious it is evident that the pair of birdssurveyed the situation and built this re-markable structure without any attemptat a nest until they reached the desirable dis-tance to construct their nest, so they couldreach the ceiling of the eave to fasten thenest to. It seems to me to be a case ofadaptability for which an unreasoning in-stinct does not satisfactorily account. —Henry Hales, Ridi^eiuooJ, N. AN UNUSUAL NEST OF THE CLIKK SWALLOW A Winter Mockingbird This morning (Feb. 16, 1904) the ther-mometer registers two degrees below zero,and a Mockingbird has eaten several timesat his box against the house where I canreach it from a window and keep the food inorder. He has been to this box every daysince December 5, many days procuringfrom it all the food he has had—the snowcovering everything else. Many nights thetemperature has been several degrees belowzero and he has weathered it, to our amaze- 68 Bird-Lore ment. He is extremely tame, comes manytimes almost immediately after we call him. This bird was first discovered in theneighborhood the second week in July,1903, bringing with him the most beautifulsong. He has been heard from every daysince and we have not known of his leavingthe block, which is about 800 feet long,with a range of about 400 to 600 feet has been my satisfaction to locate himevery day (except when out of town on ashort vacation). He sang
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