. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . were some ap])earedlike green rosettesset in a well ofgreen. Others still,rugged and une\enas to limb, toweredabove my station byfifty or seventy-fivefeet. My first dis-covery upon reach-ing the top was thatthe bulk of the birdchorus now .soundedfrom below. But afew singing Hermitsdid occupy stationsmore lofty t li a nmine. One I markeddown—rather. u\i—fifty feet above and a hundred yards away. lie sang awa\- like a contentederemite from a single twig, and 1 was rev
. The birds of Washington : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 372 species of birds found in the state . were some ap])earedlike green rosettesset in a well ofgreen. Others still,rugged and une\enas to limb, toweredabove my station byfifty or seventy-fivefeet. My first dis-covery upon reach-ing the top was thatthe bulk of the birdchorus now .soundedfrom below. But afew singing Hermitsdid occupy stationsmore lofty t li a nmine. One I markeddown—rather. u\i—fifty feet above and a hundred yards away. lie sang awa\- like a contentederemite from a single twig, and 1 was reverently constructing his highbiograjjliy and trying to pick out his domicile from the neighboring branches,when (lash! he pitched headlong two hundred feel and was seen no HKimiT WARBLKKS. 196 Tin: IIKKMIT WARBLEIk Mr. Bowles has liit u|mjii a clever scheme for decoying tlie haughty resorts to ilie vicinity of some Cassin \ireos nest containing young, andstuilies tlie throng of small birds, which the masterly scolding of the \Mreosinvariably attracts. Llxjn one such occasion, having lured down an in(|uisitivepair, he noticed a peculiar trait: .\fter examining me closely and apparentlydeciding that I was a new kind of stump, the female commenced feeding; buther attention was soon attracted to a last years nest of a Russet-backedThrush. She at once (lew to it and. hop|)iMg in. crouched down and com-menced |)ling the bottom, turning amund. |)utling the material i>n thesides into shape with her bill, and altogether acting as tho she had nest-buildingwell under way. This was al)out the middle of May, and, as I subse(|uentlydiscovctd. almost a month loo early for her to her eggs.* The nest of this species is still rare. The only one ta
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