. Camps and cruises of an ornithologist, by Frank M. Chapman .. . rst and flew away, and once thefemale came just as the male was leaving. In each case hegreeted her with a bit of song as he left, and this was at A MORNING WITH MEADOWLARKS 19 once followed by the full song from one of the fence-rowperches; those two were the only times when he uttered anote near the nest. The birds dropped down to the nest from above, and al-ways departed toward the east. They came and went free-ly, without hesitation, and were evidently acting in a whol-ly natural manner. Still, they were never off guard, but
. Camps and cruises of an ornithologist, by Frank M. Chapman .. . rst and flew away, and once thefemale came just as the male was leaving. In each case hegreeted her with a bit of song as he left, and this was at A MORNING WITH MEADOWLARKS 19 once followed by the full song from one of the fence-rowperches; those two were the only times when he uttered anote near the nest. The birds dropped down to the nest from above, and al-ways departed toward the east. They came and went free-ly, without hesitation, and were evidently acting in a whol-ly natural manner. Still, they were never off guard, butwere keen and alert, as though living in the enemys coun-try. A gentle snap of the fingers was sufficient to alarmthem, and the male started nervously at an insignificantnoise made near my house, two hundred yards away. It was deemed unwise to remove much of the grass con-cealing the nest, and the pictures do not, therefore, showthe young. The following day they had gone. The malecontinued to sing until early August, and I imagine that asecond brood was BIRD-NESTING WITH BURROUGHS When two men wliose combined years exceed five-score,can go a-bird-nesting with an enthusiasm which knows nodecrease, and count mere discovery a sufficient reward forhours of searching, the occupation is evidently worthy ofinvestigation by every boy who would i)rolong his youth. I say boy advisedly, for the bird-nesting habit is not tobe acquired in later life, and, indeed, had better never be ac-quired at all if its object be the taking of the nests and does not search for a new or beautiful flower to uprootand destroy it, but to admire it, and to cherish the memoryof its perfections until, with returning spring, it renews it-self and our delight in its existence. Bird-nesting, then, does not mean egg-collecting. Thelatter holds no antidote for age, but loses its powers as grat-ified desire checks species after species off the list, or in-creasing years bring a realization of its fo
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