One of the latest "sights" at Whips-nade is the communal nest built by a flock of Quaker Parrakeets from Australia, liberated in the park last year, The tentative effort at homemaking begun during their first season has now taken definite shape and appears as a big oblong structure of twigs, some five feet long, placed about thirty feet above the ground in the fork of a giant oak, The flock, when not streaking through the air like a vivid green comet, sits perched about the nest or enter and leave it by a small opening near the lower extremity,
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