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A Use of Flowers by Birds

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SOME years ago you allowed me to describe in NATURE the pretty doings of a pair of goldfinches, who, having built their nest on a bough overhanging a garden path, proceeded to make it more like the sky above, and therefore less visible from below, by hanging it round with wreaths of forget-me-nots.

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    J. M. H.

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H., J. A Use of Flowers by Birds. Nature 36, 101–102 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036101a0

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