. American bird magazine, ornithology. Birds. l62 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. ?quarter of his size, had brought. When she would fly off for more food for him, he would follow and be on hand with his piteous appeals for more. As this was during the last of August and the young cowbird showed no signs of helping himself to food, it looked as though this poor Chipping Sparrow has a life work in the task of feeding one use- less bird. Perhaps cowbirds are of more value to mankind than they appear to be, for it is certain that their young, on account of their vor- acity, cause the insect eating foster pa
. American bird magazine, ornithology. Birds. l62 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. ?quarter of his size, had brought. When she would fly off for more food for him, he would follow and be on hand with his piteous appeals for more. As this was during the last of August and the young cowbird showed no signs of helping himself to food, it looked as though this poor Chipping Sparrow has a life work in the task of feeding one use- less bird. Perhaps cowbirds are of more value to mankind than they appear to be, for it is certain that their young, on account of their vor- acity, cause the insect eating foster parents to destroy a great many more insects than they otherwise would for the needs of their own iDrood. V. On June 27th a Chipping Sparrow was seen flying through a small growth of pines. This was nothing unusual, but as she had food in her. Fig. 4. Photo from life by C. A. Reed. AN ANTIDOTE FOR HUNGER. bill she was under observation until she disappeared in the top of a low pine. The voices of the young could be. plainly heard coming from the same place, but so well was the nest concealed by the numerous need- les that several trips around the tree failed to reveal it. Parting the needles at the top, we opened to view the pretty scene of a mother Chippy and her family of four. Even though we had interrupted them at breakfast, they showed no anger, but seemed to regard us with as much curiosity as we did them. It is a strange fact that this pair of birds nesting as they did over a half mile from the nearest house, should have been tamer and shown less fear of the camera than did a pair which nested in a public park where thousands passed within three feet of the nest every day. They were a bright looking lot of little ones, reared in this Cozy and secure home, where the sunlight filtered down through the same need- les which protected them from the breeze which always swept across. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally
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