. Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds . Fig. 209. — Jay. bird of much personal beauty, but of many bad worst fault, perhaps, is that of devouring other birds and their eggs. It isa great mimic andrivals the magpie(Fig. 210) in the dis-cordant notes it canutter. Among the alliedbirds of interestinghabits are the ox-biters, African birdsresembling the star-lings, with strong bills and hooked claws. There areseveral species, and nearly all have the habitof running over animals — oxen, camels, andothers — to find the various insects whichinfest them. They have been called guardi
. Half hours with fishes, reptiles, and birds . Fig. 209. — Jay. bird of much personal beauty, but of many bad worst fault, perhaps, is that of devouring other birds and their eggs. It isa great mimic andrivals the magpie(Fig. 210) in the dis-cordant notes it canutter. Among the alliedbirds of interestinghabits are the ox-biters, African birdsresembling the star-lings, with strong bills and hooked claws. There areseveral species, and nearly all have the habitof running over animals — oxen, camels, andothers — to find the various insects whichinfest them. They have been called guardianbirds, as upon the appearance of a foe theyrise, uttering loud cries, thus warning theanimal. In my garden grows a tall,graceful Abyssinian banana,its leaves at least eight feetin length and a foot in the spring, a beautifullycolored bird, yellow and black,comes and tries to take pos-session. It takes a long cordor thread from a dragoon palm in the front of the house,and, using its bill as a needle, sews in and out the side. Fig. 210.— Magpie. SOME PERCHING BIRDS ±2<) of the leaf to the midrib until it has a cornucopia-Ukeshape, and in this it builds its nest. In a neighbors yard
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