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are manifold and perhaps their instincts are beyond his reasoning. Be this as it may, a choice once made of location is not abandoned unless civilization blot out the cover or kills the birds. No amount of worrit or robbing of their two or three clutches year after year will drive them away the locality. The fact is their vested rights and interests are such that they can't go and leave the homestead they have watched and tended with such protecting experience, care and knowledge now in such good working order—they wont go.