. Bird-lore . in all. With 128 Bird - Lore : skill in mimicry, tiic bird fluttered painfully alon^, ever justbe\()ml my reach until it hati led me a hundred feet or more from itsyounsi. and then, the feat eviilently successful, it sailed away again, to perch first on a fenceand later on a limb incharacteristic, length-wise Nighthawk atti-tude. How are we toaccount for the devel-opment in so manybirds of what is nowa common habit ?Ducks, Snipe, Grouse,Doves, some ground-nesting Sparrows andWarblers, and manyother species, alsofeign lameness withthe object of drawing a supposed enemy
. Bird-lore . in all. With 128 Bird - Lore : skill in mimicry, tiic bird fluttered painfully alon^, ever justbe\()ml my reach until it hati led me a hundred feet or more from itsyounsi. and then, the feat eviilently successful, it sailed away again, to perch first on a fenceand later on a limb incharacteristic, length-wise Nighthawk atti-tude. How are we toaccount for the devel-opment in so manybirds of what is nowa common habit ?Ducks, Snipe, Grouse,Doves, some ground-nesting Sparrows andWarblers, and manyother species, alsofeign lameness withthe object of drawing a supposed enemy from the vicinity of their nestor young. Are we to believe that each individual, who in this mostreasonable manner opposes strategy to force, does so intelligently? Orare we to believe that the habit has been acquired through the agencyof natural selection and is now purely instinctive? Probably neitherquestion can be answered until we know beyond question whether thismimetic or deceptive power is NIGHTH.^WK FEIGNING LAMENESS
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