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... NEST OF BALTIMORE ORIOLE orange trees , or they are cypress , or banana leaves . Sometimes they do a very queer thing ; they find the rockers , and then build the cradle under them . Birds have ways of their own , and they are very good ...
... NEST OF BALTIMORE ORIOLE orange trees , or they are cypress , or banana leaves . Sometimes they do a very queer thing ; they find the rockers , and then build the cradle under them . Birds have ways of their own , and they are very good ...
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... nest or goes off in search of food . Sometimes the mother herself sings the babies to sleep , sitting in the cradle with them . Some of the finches twitter a low , musical song over their little ones , and we have often found their nests ...
... nest or goes off in search of food . Sometimes the mother herself sings the babies to sleep , sitting in the cradle with them . Some of the finches twitter a low , musical song over their little ones , and we have often found their nests ...
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... NEST OF VIREO tree , high up among the forked branches , or lower , right in the hollow trunk . Other birds choose the ground or low shrubs . Some cradles , like those of the oriole and titmouse , are curtained all around with beautiful ...
... NEST OF VIREO tree , high up among the forked branches , or lower , right in the hollow trunk . Other birds choose the ground or low shrubs . Some cradles , like those of the oriole and titmouse , are curtained all around with beautiful ...
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... nest and settles quickly down above her young , as if she took her seat right on their frail little backs . She does ... nests on orange trees covered on the outside with the black scales which are so frequent on these trees . We have ...
... nest and settles quickly down above her young , as if she took her seat right on their frail little backs . She does ... nests on orange trees covered on the outside with the black scales which are so frequent on these trees . We have ...
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... nests may look like a part of the branch on which they rest . In this way , these shrewd little creatures hope to deceive the shrikes and owls and hawks and boys . It is not easy to find a nest that looks just like everything about it ...
... nests may look like a part of the branch on which they rest . In this way , these shrewd little creatures hope to deceive the shrikes and owls and hawks and boys . It is not easy to find a nest that looks just like everything about it ...
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