. St. Nicholas [serial] . p and comes out under the handle. There are six lovely brown eggs. Another queer place for a wrens nest is in a canvas igo5.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 751 clothes-pin apron with pockets. A house-wren has builtin a friends back yard, in a discarded apron. We put out some red yarn for an oriole who wasbuilding a nest, and she took it and wove it into hernest, making it a flaming red. Your interested reader, Prudence Ross. Dallas Lore Sharp tells of a tree-swallowthat also nested in an old pump. I haveheard of a wren that built a nest in a brokentea-kettle on
. St. Nicholas [serial] . p and comes out under the handle. There are six lovely brown eggs. Another queer place for a wrens nest is in a canvas igo5.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 751 clothes-pin apron with pockets. A house-wren has builtin a friends back yard, in a discarded apron. We put out some red yarn for an oriole who wasbuilding a nest, and she took it and wove it into hernest, making it a flaming red. Your interested reader, Prudence Ross. Dallas Lore Sharp tells of a tree-swallowthat also nested in an old pump. I haveheard of a wren that built a nest in a brokentea-kettle on a rubbish-heap. limping down the slope as though she were hurt, thusseeking to deceive the little girl and save her that not very queer ? Catherine E. Campbell. The pheasant {PJiasiamts torquatus) to whichyou refer is known as the Mongolian, Chinese,or Denny pheasant, because it was introducedin your vicinity from China by Judge O. in 1880—81, and they are now quitenumerous in your section of the THE CHINESE OR DENNY PHEASANTS FEEDING YOUNG. (Cut lent by the Oregon Agricultural College, Corvallis, Oregon.) discovery of a china pheasants nest. Monmouth, Ore. Dear St. Nicholas : One day in early spring a Chinapheasant built her nest, of horse-hair and dry grassneatly woven together, on the ground near a small oak-tree. The mother bird was very proud of the nest shehad built and the nine precious eggs which it contained. On a bright Sunday afternoon, as she was broodingon her nest (I imagine that she was thinking of thetime when she would have nine little ones, and howhappy they would be), suddenly she heard a noise ofchildrens voices in the woods. Crouching low uponthe nest, she thought at first to avoid being seen ; but alittle girl, reaching for a flower that she wished, came sonear the hidden nest that the mother felt obliged to flew directly into the little girls face and ran off The females are exceedingly timid and shy,and I presume the ac
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