. Oiseaux de la vague et des bois. Illustré par Charles Whymper et d'autres . sa très proche, et sort de son nid avec un rabat des ailes qui est intromable. En dehors de cela, si l'oiseau n'est pas à la maison, vous trouverez souvent le nid en voyant les oeufs blancs dans lui de sous-neath, les jaunes d'entre eux montrant contre le ciel un jaune déliciouspinky. Car le nid est un simple fantôme d'un nid—askeleton—et peut facilement être imité en prenant une poignée de brindilles de bouleau et de noisettes et en les arrosant à tous les anglesdans un tas. Un tel nid une paire d'oiseaux peut facilement construire en une demi-heure, et ceci, peut-être,

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. Birds of the wave and woodland. Illustrated by Charles Whymper and others . its very close, andgoes off her nest with a flap of the wings that is unmistake-able. Apart from this, if the bird is not at home, you mayoften find the nest by seeing the white eggs in it from under-neath, the yolks of them showing against the sky a deliciouspinky yellow. For the nest is a mere ghost of a nest—askeleton—and can easily be imitated by taking a handful ofthin birch and hazel twigs and sprinkling them at all anglesin a heap. Such a nest a pair of birds may easily build inhalf an hour, and this, perhaps, is one reason why they arenever seen at work. Why they should be content with sucha skeleton of a nest or how so frail a network bears two bulkynestlincrs and their mother, is a mysterv. But as Prior sines : Each according to her kind Proper material for her nest can find, And bnild a frame which deepest thought in man Would or amend or imitate in vain. When they are on the wing, turtle-doves seem to like tokeep below the level of the tree tops, and seldom, therefore.. THE NUTHATCH AT HOME BIRDS OF THE WAVE AND WOODLAND 123 come into sight conspicuously. But I have sate in an orchardand watched them, several together, flying about among theapple-trees, and feeding on the ground, when they wereunconscious of my presence. Their flight is singularlybeautiful and interesting, for the obstructions they meet withcompel them to make the most graceful and sudden evolutionsto avoid collision. And I remember very well, how, as I sate there, look-ing up from my work every now and again at the wing-clapping and testily-cooing strangers, sporting and squabblingby turns, I heard, what I had never heard in that gardenbefore—the tapping of a nuthatch. Nuthatch piercing ivith strong bi/i. South EY. Rap-rap, rap-rap^ I hear thy knocking bill. Montgomery. Tracing up the small smith, I found it busy on thetrunk of an old Scotch fir, where it found, if not ants, acolony of some other small i

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