Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 215
ona bare rock twenty feet away, so per-fectly was she painted into herranite surroundings.But while the night-hawk is select-ing a rock in the pasture on whichto lay her pair of mottled eggs, theother birds are busy with many kinds ofhouses. The woodpeckers are hewing outtheir homes in the solid… … THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE ATTACHES A HANGINGNEST TO A BRANCH. rows are neatly lining a corner under a tussockor at the base of some pasture weed ; the queer NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 745 swifts are breaking off dead twigs for theircurious little glued-up bracket-nest in the chim-ney ; and the…
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