. The New England magazine. no harm came from it, shebecame more quiet, but alwaysshowed that she was aware of thenoise. We noticed that the father-birdwas more easily disturbed and moreready to fly away at the slightest little birds paid no attentionwhatever to it, even after they hadbecome old enoughto walk out of thenest. While the mother-robin was sitting onthe nest, before thelittle ones werehatched and forsome time after that,the father-bird failedto appear, and wefeared that some ac-cident had happenedto him, or that hewas neglecting hisfamily. After watch-ing a long time, hew
. The New England magazine. no harm came from it, shebecame more quiet, but alwaysshowed that she was aware of thenoise. We noticed that the father-birdwas more easily disturbed and moreready to fly away at the slightest little birds paid no attentionwhatever to it, even after they hadbecome old enoughto walk out of thenest. While the mother-robin was sitting onthe nest, before thelittle ones werehatched and forsome time after that,the father-bird failedto appear, and wefeared that some ac-cident had happenedto him, or that hewas neglecting hisfamily. After watch-ing a long time, hewas heard singing ina neighboring tree,and we concluded hewas not helping his A LONG WORM. nest more frequently, and then thefather-robin brought worms to thelittle ones. Only once during thewhole watching did the two birds ap-pear together on the nest. The mother usually sat in one posi-tion on the nest, looking towards thehouse to see if any one was on, after the little birds werehatched, she almost always ap-. SATTSFIED FOR ONCE THE ROBINS NEST i6-
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