Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 452
and islined with feathers, while thewalls and foundation of the nestare of small sticks, straw, etc. This habit of building its nestin the cactus gives the bird itsname. I think that it is chieflyfor protection against the numer-ous snakes which makes thewren select this place of abode.But is this… … the prickly thingdown to the pho-tographers andback.Yours respect-fully,Samuel S. Berry(age 16). The cactus-wren is a truewren, with avery long sci-entific nameof Helcodytesbruntieicapillus.Of this birdwith a mouth-twisting name Florence Merriam Bailey, in her Handbook of Birds of the Western…
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