. The century illustrated monthly magazine . Chippie Sparrow. House Wren. blending its nest so perfectly with its surround-ings, that only the most alert eye can detect egg upon a rock, and thriving there,— thefrailest linked to the strongest, as if the geologyof the granite mountain had been bent into theservice of the bird. I doubt if crows, or jays,or owls ever rob these nests. Phcebe hasoutwitted them. They never heard of thebird that builded its house upon a rock. Strong is thy dwelling-place, and thou put-test thy nest in a rock. The song-sparrow sometimes nests in April,but not co
. The century illustrated monthly magazine . Chippie Sparrow. House Wren. blending its nest so perfectly with its surround-ings, that only the most alert eye can detect egg upon a rock, and thriving there,— thefrailest linked to the strongest, as if the geologyof the granite mountain had been bent into theservice of the bird. I doubt if crows, or jays,or owls ever rob these nests. Phcebe hasoutwitted them. They never heard of thebird that builded its house upon a rock. Strong is thy dwelling-place, and thou put-test thy nest in a rock. The song-sparrow sometimes nests in April,but not commonly in our latitude. Emersonsays, in May-Day: The sparrow meek, prophetic-eyed,Her nest beside the snow-drift weaves,Secure the osier yet will hideHer callow brood in mantling leaves. But the sparrow usually prefers to wait till thesnow-drift is gone. I have never found thenest of one till long after the last drift haddisappeared from the fields, though a latewriter upon New England birds says the spar-row sometimes lays in April, when
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