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House Finches Again

Authors
Ernest Adams
Journal
Condor
Volume
1
Issue
2 (March-April)
Year
1899
Pages
24
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House Finches Again.

Experience has taught me that House Finches may nest anywhere. I have found them occupying nests of orioles, towhees, grosbeaks, cliff swallows, blackbirds and portions of hawks’ abodes; besides tin cans, old hats and stove pipes and now I shall add hollow limbs. One bird entering the opening of a small cavity actually squeezed her way back for two and a half feet to sit on her eggs in total darkness. Another reared her brood in the deep cavity of a Californian Woodpecker in an oak while a third selected a similar hole in a telegraph pole. The latter contained six eggs.

ERNEST ADAMS, San Jose, Cal.

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