. Bird lore . fji^U^^*^- 1. NORTHERN SHRIKE, Adult 2. NORTHERN SHRIKE, Young 3. LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE(One-half natural size) 2^irb=1tore A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE ^ .- DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BISCD^ fc^ Official Organ of The Audupon Societies Vol. XX July—August, 1918. Notes on the Nesting of the Nashville Warbler By H. E. TUTTLE, Lake Forest, 111. With photographs by the Author IT WAS mid-June at Lake Forest, 111., and a heaviness hung in the airladen with the sweetness of the clover fields. My bird-season was draw-ing to a close. I was strolling along a steep side hill, where birches
. Bird lore . fji^U^^*^- 1. NORTHERN SHRIKE, Adult 2. NORTHERN SHRIKE, Young 3. LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE(One-half natural size) 2^irb=1tore A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE ^ .- DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BISCD^ fc^ Official Organ of The Audupon Societies Vol. XX July—August, 1918. Notes on the Nesting of the Nashville Warbler By H. E. TUTTLE, Lake Forest, 111. With photographs by the Author IT WAS mid-June at Lake Forest, 111., and a heaviness hung in the airladen with the sweetness of the clover fields. My bird-season was draw-ing to a close. I was strolling along a steep side hill, where birches andazalea bushes made the walking difficult when, from between my feet, therefluttered forth a little green bird which flew swiftly into the tops of the birchesand disappeared without a note of protest. To make assurance doubly sure Ilooked for a nest and presently found it-—a grassy cup set in a bit of moss undera bunch of drifted leaves and crisp twigs. Wintergreen leaves and the witheredends of the springs arbutus carpeted the immediate surroundings. So wellhidden was it that I had to remove the roof of dead leaves, better to take mypictures. When the five eggs had hatched, I returned with an umbrella tent which Iset up within a yard of the nest and inside of whi
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