. The home life of wild birds; a new method of the study and photography of birds. Birds; Photography of birds. The Cedar Bird. 53 young. Most of the birds which I have studied at the nest have been entiiely lacking in appendages of this kind. Late in spring the Cedar-birds are seen coursing about in small squads, selecting some trectop for an observatory, and always showing the most marked uniformity, there being little to distinguish the sexes either in size or color. Their plump oval forms and easy, undulating flight arc characteristic, and their manner of fi\'ing and perching in compact bo
. The home life of wild birds; a new method of the study and photography of birds. Birds; Photography of birds. The Cedar Bird. 53 young. Most of the birds which I have studied at the nest have been entiiely lacking in appendages of this kind. Late in spring the Cedar-birds are seen coursing about in small squads, selecting some trectop for an observatory, and always showing the most marked uniformity, there being little to distinguish the sexes either in size or color. Their plump oval forms and easy, undulating flight arc characteristic, and their manner of fi\'ing and perching in compact bodies as one bird should not escape the observer. Apple trees of moderate size are in high fax'or, since they afford such fine opportunities for nest-building, and are usualh' surrounded by good feeding grounds. Two summers ago some built on the hori- zontal bough of a pine tree, just above a Ivobin's nest. Song Sparrows and Chipping Sparrows also occupied the same tree. They usually fre- quent scrubb}' pastures, select- ing the witch-hazel, or thorn- apple bushes by preference, and occasionally a small sap- ling oak or maple. The nest is either set in a fork or sad- dled to a spreading branch, at a height of from five to twenty feet. It is nicely ^vrought from vegetable and animal material such as dead grass, roots, fine twigs, weed-stems, pine need- les, wool, yarn, and twine. A nest built in an orchard was composed of dead clover stems, witch grass, with thistle-down and the fluffy heads of the In- dian tobacco, a plant growing close by, worked over its rim and interior. Four or five eggs are ordinarih' laid, but the total product of ten nests which I examined in 1899 was only thirty-six eggs, out of which about twent^'-fivc voung were hatched and from sixteen to twent)' reared. The parental instincts during the early days of nest-building and incubation are often weak, and this is shown to a marked degree in the Cedar-bird, who is easily robbed and ever ready to ta
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