. The oist . View Looking South Across Lake. Editors Home Place. —Photo by Lizzie Cr ada Gander Defending Nest on Editors Home Place. —Photo by Lizzie Lynch, THE OOLOQIST 115 ing phalarope nests amid the longergrasses is certain to meet with dis-appointment. Tiny bogs, with scantygrowth, are much favored; and, stillmore, the areas whereon naught isgrowing but a tiny, five-inch , the nests are placed. Theyare usually real nests, full half inchin thickness. They are of grassy andother fine materials, and the entirefabric is fairly well sunken into thesoft meadow soil. Seldom i
. The oist . View Looking South Across Lake. Editors Home Place. —Photo by Lizzie Cr ada Gander Defending Nest on Editors Home Place. —Photo by Lizzie Lynch, THE OOLOQIST 115 ing phalarope nests amid the longergrasses is certain to meet with dis-appointment. Tiny bogs, with scantygrowth, are much favored; and, stillmore, the areas whereon naught isgrowing but a tiny, five-inch , the nests are placed. Theyare usually real nests, full half inchin thickness. They are of grassy andother fine materials, and the entirefabric is fairly well sunken into thesoft meadow soil. Seldom is the sitewhere water stands. The Montana Red-wing is quite asinteresting as his more plebean con-gener of the southern and mid-northern marshes. His voice is of arather different quality, and especiallyin the alarm notes uttered when onenears the nest. In no wise are theseRed-wings so abundant as the commonRed-wing is with us. During ten daysof search for nests of the Yellow RailI found, probably about fifteen nestsof Montana Red-wings only. These, in location and make-up, weredeci
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