. Birds of the water, wood & waste . other sixor seven weeks after the date mentionedthat he actually took bread from ourhands. That amount of time was still ap-parently necessary to work out the breadand finger tips problem. No. 5 has for 196 BIRDS OF THE WATER many weeks now been completely domesti-cated, and comes and goes with the otherfour. He, too, like No. 4, is a fullymatured bird in fine plumage. Kuku, Pidgy, and Uncle Harryare now some seven months old; theyhave given no trouble to the grown-ups,and to the younger folk of the stationhave, together with the Pukekos Budget,Toddy, Jack,
. Birds of the water, wood & waste . other sixor seven weeks after the date mentionedthat he actually took bread from ourhands. That amount of time was still ap-parently necessary to work out the breadand finger tips problem. No. 5 has for 196 BIRDS OF THE WATER many weeks now been completely domesti-cated, and comes and goes with the otherfour. He, too, like No. 4, is a fullymatured bird in fine plumage. Kuku, Pidgy, and Uncle Harryare now some seven months old; theyhave given no trouble to the grown-ups,and to the younger folk of the stationhave, together with the Pukekos Budget,Toddy, Jack, Jill, and later Sep-timus, been a source of unmixed plea-sure and interest. Even if they left usto-morrow, we elders have learnt fromthem what we never could have station children have gained them it has been an education, Ibelieve myself, of the soundest sort, nottaught by parents out of books, but drawnby the children themselves direct fromnature. Printed by Whitcomhe it Tombi Limited, Wellingtun. PLATE Child feeding Pigeons. CO V SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION LIBRARIES 3 ^Oaa DD3SS=iED 3 nhbird
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