. The Audubon magazine . lined withdried grass, thistle down and small bits of bark, thewhole being as nice a cradle as one could wish resembles the hummingbirds nest, and, with itscomplement of three, sometimes four or five eggs, it The Audubon Note Book. 263 is quite as pretty as the delicate nest of that eggs measure . inch, and are creamcolor, dotted, especially at the larger end, with darkbrown spots, some of which appear to be on andsome under the &%% shell. They are very wood pewee is a very pugnacious bird, and Ihave seen him drive away numbers of goldf
. The Audubon magazine . lined withdried grass, thistle down and small bits of bark, thewhole being as nice a cradle as one could wish resembles the hummingbirds nest, and, with itscomplement of three, sometimes four or five eggs, it The Audubon Note Book. 263 is quite as pretty as the delicate nest of that eggs measure . inch, and are creamcolor, dotted, especially at the larger end, with darkbrown spots, some of which appear to be on andsome under the &%% shell. They are very wood pewee is a very pugnacious bird, and Ihave seen him drive away numbers of goldfinches,and he will fight with the robin, though he invari-ably gets beaten in a combat with the latter. AUDUBON MONUMENT COMMITTEE. At a meeting of this committee held on Wednes-day evening, Dec. 2, at the house of Prof. ThomasEgleston, chairman of the joint committee, a veryhandsome memorial portrait of Audubon was ex-hibited, and a resolution passed to send out a copyto all subscribers of a dollar and upward to the. monument fund. This portrait is from Turnuressteel engraving of Cruikshanks painting, which isconsidered the best portrait of Audubon extant. Itsissue will be confined solely to subscribers to themonument. Our readers will judge of the portraitfrom the reduced cut given. PENNSYLVANIA BIRD NOTES. In October there came to the old pear tree beforethe door, three or four strange birds. They wereprobably travelers pausing for rest and were larger than a bluebird but not so large asa robin, but their breasts were just the color of arobins breast. Their backs were black or nearlyso. It was toward evening when they came, so wecould not tell exactly the color of their backs. Weused the glass, but they flitted about so we could notstudy them as closely as we wished. Their voiceswere like a blackbirds. They only uttered one notethat we heard, a harsh check chack. They flewaway in a few minutes, and although we watched,hoping to see them again, they did not r
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