. Birds in literature . the cuckoos actions which always suggests to me that he either hasjust done, or is about to do something he shouldnt. Chapman. Bird Life.^^ The cuckoos might well be called caterpillar birds, forthey are so given to a diet of the hairy caterpillars thatthe walls of their stomachs are actually permeated withthe hairs, and a section of stomach looks like the smoothlybrushed top of a gentlemans beaver Mehriam. Birds of Village and Field. ^ Neither cuckoo knows how to build a proper home;a bunch of sticks dropped carelessly into the bush, wherethe hapless babies that emerge
. Birds in literature . the cuckoos actions which always suggests to me that he either hasjust done, or is about to do something he shouldnt. Chapman. Bird Life.^^ The cuckoos might well be called caterpillar birds, forthey are so given to a diet of the hairy caterpillars thatthe walls of their stomachs are actually permeated withthe hairs, and a section of stomach looks like the smoothlybrushed top of a gentlemans beaver Mehriam. Birds of Village and Field. ^ Neither cuckoo knows how to build a proper home;a bunch of sticks dropped carelessly into the bush, wherethe hapless babies that emerge from the greenish eggswill not have far to fall when they tumble out of bed, asthey must inevitably do, may by courtesy only be calleda nest. Neltje Blanchan. Bird Neighbors.^^ What do I hear? Is it from far or near? Is it upon the left or right. From down below or from the height. The sound of any living vocal thing?Or is it only the vain conjuring Of artist Fancy shaping large and clear What dryads hear? Selected. 64. DUCKS They are, for the most part, northern breeding birdsand appear on our waters chiefly as migrants. Chapman. Handbook of Birds.^^ Ducks are by far the most beautiful of all aquatic birdsin the colors of their plumage. . Their whistUngflocks that pass frequently over our heads at differentseasons always command our attention. Flagg. a Year With the Birds.^^ EAGLE, BALD Because immature birds reverse natures order and arelarger than adults, and their plumage undergoes threechanges before they appear at the close of the third yearin white heads and tails, some early writers describedthe black eagle, Washingtons eagle, and the bald-headedeagle as three distinct birds. It is safe to say that any eagle seen in the eastern United States is thebald-head. Emblem of the Repubhc, standing for freedom to enjoyhfe, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, it must be ownedthat our national bird is a piratical parasite wheneverhe gets the Blanchan. Birds That
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