. Bird lore . 1. Pine Siskin, Summer. 2. Pine Siskin, Pall. 3. Goldfinch, ad. male, Summer. 4. Goldfinch, ad. female, Summer. 5. Goldfinch, ad. male, Winter. 6. Goldfinch, yng. male, Winter. (One-half Natural Size.) <i\ r A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of the Audubon societies Vol. XII July—August, 1910 No. 4 The Black-billed Cuckoo at Home. E By EDMUND J. SAWYER , photograph and drawings by the author VVERY observing bird student knows what is meantby the unbirdlike species—certain not necessarilyuncommon, but hardly familiar birds. Some o
. Bird lore . 1. Pine Siskin, Summer. 2. Pine Siskin, Pall. 3. Goldfinch, ad. male, Summer. 4. Goldfinch, ad. female, Summer. 5. Goldfinch, ad. male, Winter. 6. Goldfinch, yng. male, Winter. (One-half Natural Size.) <i\ r A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS Official Organ of the Audubon societies Vol. XII July—August, 1910 No. 4 The Black-billed Cuckoo at Home. E By EDMUND J. SAWYER , photograph and drawings by the author VVERY observing bird student knows what is meantby the unbirdlike species—certain not necessarilyuncommon, but hardly familiar birds. Some ofthem are the Woodcock, Cuckoo, Whippoorwill, Nighthawk,Chimney Swift, Hummingbird and, to some extent, theBrown Creeper and Marsh Wren. There is a strangenessabout these birds, something by virtue of which we are*V \ \0 not auowe(i to Pass them with the mere glance we mightvi { bestow upon others which, it may be, we chance to know even less about. In some, this strangeness is slight and vague; in others, it amounts to an air of mystery which hangs aboutthe bird like a veil. Of the latter, the Cuckoo is a striking seen, a Cuckoo invites our thoughtful attention; there is alwaysthe same engrossed, preoccupied bearing, always that suggestion, to a greateror less extent, of the mystic. On June 17, 1909, at the foot of a slight, sandy ridge covered with a scantygrowth of
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