. Bird lore . feathersaround the edge of the nest could be made out, waving back and forth, I sub-sequently found that the nest had riuite a number of feathers incorporatedin it. Our house had been occupied since May 27, and so, I suppose, the nest hadbeen built w^hile various members of the family were coming and going underthe tree every day. It was not possible accurately to count the number ofyoung birds in the nest, but probably there were three. Both the male and O5) i6 Bird-Lore female birds fed the young, and fed them incessantly and without pause, butthe female did more work than the
. Bird lore . feathersaround the edge of the nest could be made out, waving back and forth, I sub-sequently found that the nest had riuite a number of feathers incorporatedin it. Our house had been occupied since May 27, and so, I suppose, the nest hadbeen built w^hile various members of the family were coming and going underthe tree every day. It was not possible accurately to count the number ofyoung birds in the nest, but probably there were three. Both the male and O5) i6 Bird-Lore female birds fed the young, and fed them incessantly and without pause, butthe female did more work than the male. The birds would become slightlyalarmed if any one sat too close to the open window, but paid no attention toany one back a few feet in the rather dark room. I tried to take photographsof both the adult birds, but the male was too quick, and had the habit ofsneaking to the nest by a covered route, so that I could not catch him. |Thefemale, however, seemed bolder, and would, on returning to the nest, or on. MYRTLE WARBLER IN JUVENAL PLUMAGE leaving it, often alight on a branch near-by. I thus got a snapshot of July 20, I saw one of the young birds crawling around on the branch nearthe nest, and later in the day found one of them on the ground under thetree, and, placing it on a young spruce tree close at hand, took four photo-graphs of it while it posed nicely for its picture. For several days, I saw ayoung Myrtle Warbler around the house being fed by an adult male, and feltconfident that it was one of those from the nest I had been watching. Inever saw more than one of the young birds at a time after they left the nest,and did not see the female feeding the young except in the nest. A few dayslater, I climbed the tree and brought down the nest, which was about 24 feetfrom the ground and about 4 feet from the trunk of the tree and 7 feet fromthe window. It was a pretty little nest, with a ring of feathers, mostly chicken,around the edge, which curled up over the holl
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