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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 870

An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 870 — ll, Ohio.Dear St. Nicholas :—For two years a pair of robinshave built a nest in one of our trees. About the first ofJuly, when the young birds were about half-grown, anEnglish sparrow was noticed about the nest after the pa-rent bird had fed the young ones. The sparrow appearedto take the food out… … robin and phoebe alternately feedingyoung robins in a nest. hop down on to the nest again and the young birds wouldopen their mouths. It was always the female sparrowthat came ; I never saw the male bird near the nest. Afterall but one of the young birds had flown, the sparrow stillcame to the nest…

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