Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 584
birds, ifthese are hatched. This done, the reptile quietlycoils himself up in their place, and sleeps forseveral days. A woodpeckers hole is such a very convenientplace for a nest, that many other birds are glad tofind one unoccupied. Sometimes a pair of wrenswill watch the motions of the… … THE WREN. troublesome that, although a woodpecker is largerand stronger than twenty wrens, the owners some-times abandon the place, and make a new nest.Still, the wrens are not always allowed to keep thehouse they have stolen, for the blue-birds are 556 BIRDS IN THE SPRING. Doi equally covetous of…
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