. How to attract the birds : and other talks about bird neighbors . junior partners : young house-wrens almost ready to earn their own living tered over the ground. Once these favorite nutswere discovered, this family of birds likewise joinedthe firm which, with the addition of the owner of theestate, now consists of purple martins, barn swallows,chimney-swifts, bluebirds and wrens. Of course theyhave numerous assistants that come and go, but theseare the recognized partners, both full-fledged andjuniors, with homes on the place. And all draw 190 What Birds Do for Us enormous dividends from it
. How to attract the birds : and other talks about bird neighbors . junior partners : young house-wrens almost ready to earn their own living tered over the ground. Once these favorite nutswere discovered, this family of birds likewise joinedthe firm which, with the addition of the owner of theestate, now consists of purple martins, barn swallows,chimney-swifts, bluebirds and wrens. Of course theyhave numerous assistants that come and go, but theseare the recognized partners, both full-fledged andjuniors, with homes on the place. And all draw 190 What Birds Do for Us enormous dividends from it in that unique andhappy manner which greatly increases the cash rev-enues of the business. Perhaps the junior partners,-the fledghngs, with appetites bigger than theirbodies (for many eat more than their weight of food. An Indigo Bunting mother does not hesitate to ram alarge grasshopper down her small babys throat aftershe has nipped off the wings every twenty-four hours), are of greater value thanthe seniors. Even seed-eating birds, as we haveseen in a previous chapter, feed insects to their nest-lings: an indigo bunting mother does not hesitate toram a very large grasshopper down her very smallbabys throat after she has nipped ofif the wings. PARTNERSHIPS IN NATURE Just as many insects have resorted to curious andingenious devices to avoid the birds attention, so 191 How to Attract the Birds many trees, shrubs, and plants, with ends of theirown to be gained, take great pains to attract insects mimic with their coloring that of their surround-ings : one mustlook sharp be-fore discoveringthe glaucousgreen worm onthe glaucousgreen nastur-^^^^^^^^^ tiumleaf. Some,mk m ^^^^^^H ^^^^ ^^^^ m i 1 k - V M<^ V. - V^^^H ^^^d butterfly, m ii^fcfe ^v\ ^^^H secrete disagree- f ^ ^^ v^^^Hj able juices
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