. Bird-lore . y piteous moanings and shrill cries and hisses. Thevariety of ways with which the bird can attract attention would often make itimpossible to find the place where the eggs or birds are, even if they did nothave perfect protective coloring. In Big Bear Valley, Calif., July, 1921, the incident here illustrated tookplace. When the photographer, Wright M. Pierce, discovered a Pacific Night-hawk and its two half-grown young on the gravel, the bird flushed as soon ashe came within six feet. It lit nearby, nearly flattened on the ground, wingsoutspread, uttering a shrill hiss. The mater
. Bird-lore . y piteous moanings and shrill cries and hisses. Thevariety of ways with which the bird can attract attention would often make itimpossible to find the place where the eggs or birds are, even if they did nothave perfect protective coloring. In Big Bear Valley, Calif., July, 1921, the incident here illustrated tookplace. When the photographer, Wright M. Pierce, discovered a Pacific Night-hawk and its two half-grown young on the gravel, the bird flushed as soon ashe came within six feet. It lit nearby, nearly flattened on the ground, wingsoutspread, uttering a shrill hiss. The maternal instinct militant made it cometoward the enemy to attract attention from the young. It fluttered and con-tinued hissing when he picked up one of the young and even came close, utteringanother shrill note. When he released one of the young it ran toward the oldbird and then, as the mother seemed satisfied that she had succeeded in de-ceiving, she flew across the canon and did not return for fifteen ■ f*t^iteM£*ii CEDAR WAXWING FEEDING YOUNG Photographed by Joseph Pollak, Carman, N. Y ^oteg from iftefo anfc &tubv A Plea for the Ruffed Grouse In notes, April 17, issued by the Divisionof Ornithology, Department of Agriculture,Boston, Mass., there is an account of seriousdamage to apple trees by Grouse eating thefruit-buds during the past winter in Massa-chusetts and New Hampshire. Some treesin western Massachusetts were nearlystripped. The same thing occurred on the ArrowLakes, British Columbia, on certain fruitranches. At Broadwater, on the LowerArrow Lake, a bunch of eight Grouse wereobserved for a week in the apple trees. Suspi-cion being aroused that they were doingharm, six were shot, but the remaining twomade good their escape and did not crops of the six shot were stuffed full offruit-spurs. When in Victoria on a visit, I took thecontents of one crop to the Provincial Mu-seum, and was informed by the Director,Mr. F. Kermode, that he had never in h
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