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Show QUEER NEST BUILT BY I BIRDS. Oriole and HI3 Mate Had Made Use of Post-Office Twine. "One of the oddest birds' nests I have seen in a long time was that of a Baltimore oriole and Its male near a busy railroad station," said an enthusiastic en-thusiastic amateur ornithologist. "Tho nest, which was constructed almost entirely of cotton twine, hung from a lower branch of a little maplo tree over the steps loading to the station platform and within 20 feet of the railroad rail-road tracks, where about 60 " trains pass a day. The bustle and roar didn't seem to bolhr the birds a bit. " "At this station the mall trains take the mail bags 'on the fly," and on account ac-count of the suction they have to bo tied to the iron arms of the mail cranes with light twine to prevent them from being blown off. Wcn tho bag is jerked from the post or crano to tho car, the twine breaks and falls to the ground, and it was these stj-ands that the birds bad gathered and woven Imo a beautiful hanging no3i. The station agent, who look great interest In the orioles, told me they had been coming to that particular particu-lar spot for three or four year6, but that V'jey did not build a new pent every season. lie said when they did build a new nest It took the birds about a week to construct It, the male collecting the material and the femalo doing moat of the weaving." |