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112 Bird -Lore the particular bird about which I have been writing was an ex- ceptionally gifted performer, although at least two of the songs which I have attempted to describe have been heard by other observers. ij^.:-: . ,— FLICKER AT NEST-HOLE The same site had been used for two previous seasons, in one of which the was artificially enlarged by "some boy" Photographed from nature bj' A. L. Princehorn, at Glen Island, N. Y., June 16. 1899