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MAY: The three pairs begin nesting, one in the alfalfa, one in the greening

marsh, another on the ditch. 
JE: A rain gets the marsh nest, the haymower the a.falfa nest. Both bereaved

pairs try again, one in the oats, the other on the ditch. 
JULY: The mower get the oats nest, but the early ditch nest brings off a
dozen 
young (total 14) and the late ditch nest all but 4 chicks which the cat kills.

To tal 24. 
AU4UST: Cats, dogs, and cars get 4 chicks. Total 20. 
SEPT~INBER: Easy going, no losses. 
OCTOBER: Eating ragweed wid foxtail in corn and oat stubble. A pheasant hunter

poUt-s   Total 16. 
NOVEMBER: Same. A rabbit huntor pots 1. Total 15. 
DECEMBER: Easy going. Balance on Januarj same as last year. 
mry: Each month in t1he year presents one or more riskn of loss by death
or 
moving out. The poas cblo tsc; are of many kinds, but all depend largely
on 
whether the range offers tha birds a enar.e to shift their habits so as to
cir- 
cumvent each particular rivk, Hence at tibe end of the year the range offering

good chances will be heavily populated, while the range offering poor chances

will be scantily populated.