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Bird-nesting in Winter Ernest Thompson Seton
冬天建鳥巢 歐尼斯特·湯普森·西頓
Ernest Thompson Seton has for a long time been studying birds and animals, and writing about them.
歐尼斯特·湯普森·西頓長期研究鳥類和動物，并對此著書立作。
He is also an artist of wild life.
他還是一名野生動物藝術家。
For a number of years he lived in the backwoods of Canada and on the plains of the West.
他曾多年來一直住在加拿大森林地帶，以及美國西部的平原之上。
In this article he gives some very sensible advice about gathering birds' nests.
在這篇文章中，他提供了許多關于采集鳥巢的合理意見。
What good are old bird-nests? These are some of the uses they serve:
老舊鳥巢有哪些好處？它們的功能有以下幾點：
A deer mouse seeking the safety of a bramble thicket and a warm house,
鹿鼠會在荊棘叢中和舒適的家中尋找安全地，
will make his own nest in the deserted home of a catbird.
他們會在鳴禽的荒涼鳥巢安家。
A gray squirrel will roof over the open nest of a crow or hawk and so make it a castle in the air for himself.
灰色松鼠會在烏鴉或鷹的開放性鳥巢上方安家，它們是在空中建城堡。
But one of the strangest uses is this: the solitary sandpiper is a bird
但最奇怪的用法是以下幾點：磯鷸是一種鳥類，
that cannot build a tree nest for itself and yet loves to give to its eggs the safety of a high place;
它無法為自己筑巢，但卻喜歡在高處安全地帶下蛋；
so it lays in the old nest of a robin, or other tree bird, and there its young are hatched.
所以它會在知更鳥的老巢下蛋，或是其它鳥類的老巢中孵化后代。
But this is only in the Far North. There are plenty of old bird-nests left for other uses and for you.
但這只會發生在最北方，還有一些老巢有其它用處，而且還可以供人類使用。
Bird-nesting in summer is wicked, cruel, and against the law.
夏天建鳥巢是痛苦的，而且是有違常理的。
But bird-nesting in winter is good fun and harms no one if we take only the little nests
但冬天建鳥巢很有趣，而且不會傷害他人，如果我們只拿走一些小鳥巢，
that are built in forked twigs or on rock ledges.
它們的建造材料是細枝或建在巖架。
For most little birds prefer to make a new nest for themselves each season.
多數小鳥喜歡每個季節建一個新鳥巢。
If you get the nest of a goldfinch (floss nest), a phoebe (moss nest), a robin (mud nest), a vireo (good nest),
如果你擁有了金翅雀的鳥巢（絲棉鳥巢），霸鹟（苔蘚鳥巢），知更鳥（泥巢），燕雀（漂亮巢）
a kingbird (rag nest), an oriole (bag nest), you have six different kinds of beautiful nests
霸鳥(碎布巢），金鶯鳥（袋狀巢），你就有了六種樣式的華麗鳥巢，
that are easily kept for the museum, and you do no harm in taking them.
便于在博物館保存，而且百利而無一害。
