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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 60

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uld dis-close the locality of its nest. A few yards fromme was a little bush, from the top of which ayellow-winged sparrow was sending out itsfeeble, chirping song. Presently a little brownbird came out of the meadow and alighted inthe grass but a few yards from the singer. In-stantly he flew to… … THE YELLOW-WINGED SPARROW. 48 A BIRD TALK. continuing his song, while the female droppedquickly into the grass ten or more yards away.The nest is there, I said, and I must find it.So I walked straight to the spot where the birdhad disappeared and scrutinized the groundclosely. Not seeing the object…

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