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My Studio Neighbors
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W. Hamilton Gibson
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But
we
have
a
more
remarkable
example
of
opposition
in
the
resource
of
the
little
yellow
warbler,
which
I
have
noted
as
one
of
the
favorite
dupes
of
the
cow-bird--a
deliberate,
intelligent,
courageous
defiance
and
frequent
victory
which
are
unique
in
bird
history,
and
which,
if
through
evolutionary
process
they
became
the
fashion
in
featherdom,
would
put
the
cow-bird's
mischief
greatly
at
a
discount.
The
identity
of
this
pretty
little
warbler
is
certainly
familiar
to
most
observant
country
dwellers,
even
if
unknown
by
name,
though
its
golden-yellow
plumage
faintly
streaked
with
dusky
brown
upon
the
breast
would
naturally
suggest
its
popular
title
of
"summer
yellow-bird."
It
is
one
of
the
commonest
of
the
mnio-tiltidae,
or
wood-warblers,
though
more
properly
a
bird
of
the
copse
and
shrubbery
than
of
the
woods.
This
nest
is
a
beautiful
piece
of
bird
architecture.
In
a
walk
in
search
of
one
only
a
day
or
two
ago
I
procured
one,
which
is
now
before
me.
It
was
built
in
the
fork
of
an
elder-bush,
to
which
it
was
moored
by
strips
of
fine
bark
and
cobweb,
its
downy
bulk
being
composed
by
a
fitted
mass
of
fine
grass,
willow
cotton,
fern
wood,
and
other
similar
ingredients.
It
is
about
three
inches
in
depth,
outside
measurement.
But
this
depth
greatly
varies
in
different
specimens.
Our
next
specimen
may
afford
quite
a
contrast,
for
the
yellow
warbler
occasionally
finds
it
to
her
interest
to
extend
the
elevation
of
her
dwelling
to
a
remarkable
height.
On
page
50
is
shown
one
of
these
nests,
snugly
moored
in
the
fork
of
a
scrub
apple-tree.
Its
depth
from
the
rim
to
the
base,
viewed
from
the
outside,
is
about
five
inches,
at
least
two
inches
longer
than
necessity
would
seem
to
require,
and
apparently
with
a
great
waste
of
material
in
the
lower
portion,
as
the
hollow
with
the
pretty
spotted
eggs
is
of
only
the
ordinary
depth
of
about
two
inches,
thus
hardly
reaching
half-way
to
the
base.
Let
us
examine
it
closely.
There
certainly
is
a
suspicious
line
or
division
across
its
upper
portion,
about
an
inch
below
the
rim,
and
extending
more
or
less
distinctly
completely
around
the
nest.
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