. Bird lore . THE ROBBER EATING THE EGGS Observations in a Laughing Gull Colony 20^^ members of thr tiie Wesrem G^iil of o^jt Pacinc Coast andthe Lessex El;,:!:-. i.:l:rl Gull of YjKHfs^. are notorious nest-roVDers. but aseach. of tliese is beliered to invariably respect the eggs of its O^ti species. tKe:-- :f thr Tnlar-i hi-d ^.^rrsrs by compg-rison tlie more strarige and This a^.ian tragedy reached its climax half an ho^ar after tlie robbersf—irvire. At f :2c p. IL a bird, apparently the retiamng o^.ner. carne drig-:rr ^:r:;; :lir i>ol from the direction of th
. Bird lore . THE ROBBER EATING THE EGGS Observations in a Laughing Gull Colony 20^^ members of thr tiie Wesrem G^iil of o^jt Pacinc Coast andthe Lessex El;,:!:-. i.:l:rl Gull of YjKHfs^. are notorious nest-roVDers. but aseach. of tliese is beliered to invariably respect the eggs of its O^ti species. tKe:-- :f thr Tnlar-i hi-d ^.^rrsrs by compg-rison tlie more strarige and This a^.ian tragedy reached its climax half an ho^ar after tlie robbersf—irvire. At f :2c p. IL a bird, apparently the retiamng o^.ner. carne drig-:rr ^:r:;; :lir i>ol from the direction of the beach, and circled high abovethe nest; then for the nrst time catching sight of the ruiiL she broke forth into. One of Our Neighbors By LILLIAN LAMBERT, Cedar Falls, Iowa THE theory of evolution—that each form of life has developed throughhundreds and thousands of years from a lower form—puts our ideasin regard to life upon a different basis, and establishes more than everbefore a kinship among all forms of animals. We, as human beings, havedominion over the lower forms of animals simply because of the superiorityof our intellect, but this superiority, instead of making us arrogant, shouldgive us a broader sympathy for our feathered and four-footed brothers, anda keener insight into their world, which is by no means a small one. Birds, as a class, are far more intelligent than the average person thinks,and this is especially true of the Crow. Most of us have inherited from ourancestors the epithet thieving Crow, and a prejudice against him whichhe little deserves. To say that a Crow steals, gives to him the moral insightinto right and wrong which the genus Homo alone possesses. The Crow doe
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