. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . ^ will sit on limbsjust above ones head, almost within reach, and regard onecurioush% but Avithout much alarm. Usually in Massachu-setts when a human l)eing comes near the nest the motherbird whirs loudly away. She has well learned the fear ofman ; but in a place where no shooting was permitted, a large. PLATE XXII. —Ruffed Grouse, One Day old. (riiotojiraph,from life, by C.
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . ^ will sit on limbsjust above ones head, almost within reach, and regard onecurioush% but Avithout much alarm. Usually in Massachu-setts when a human l)eing comes near the nest the motherbird whirs loudly away. She has well learned the fear ofman ; but in a place where no shooting was permitted, a large. PLATE XXII. —Ruffed Grouse, One Day old. (riiotojiraph,from life, by C. F. Ilodiie.) (From the annual report of theMassachusetts Connnissioners on Fisheries and Game. 11)0.).) ^ ~ ^Brv~ ^^^^ r^Bi^^^^^^^^^^i PLATE XXIII. —Ruffed Grouse, Four Months old. (Photouraph,from life, l\v C. F. Hodge.) (Prom the annual report of tlie Massa-chusetts Commissioners on Fisheries and Game, )r>.) SONGLESS BIBBS OF ORCHAED AND WOODLAND. 269 gang of men were cutting underbrush, while a Partridgesitting there remained (juietly on her nest as the men workednoisily all about her. Another bird that nested beside awoods road, along which I walked daily, at first would flyl)efore I had come within a rod of her ; but later she becameconfiding enough to sit on her nest while six persons passedclose beside her. Evidently the birds facility in concealingher nest consists in sitting close and keeping her eggs wellcovered. Her api)arent faith in her invisibility is overcomeonly by her fear of man or her
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