. Bright feathers; or Some North American birds of beauty. Illustrated with drawings made from nature, and carefully colored by hand . hose whoare conversant with its habit, is the resolution it displays in refusing toincubate the alien eggs of the Cow-bird, by whom this bird is frequentlyvictimized. Seemingly too indolent to speed to her own home, the femaleof the Cow Black-bird very frequently avails herself of the nests of otherand smaller birds in which to deposit her eggs, thus ridding herself ofthe cares of incubation and provision for her helpless progeny. With persistent determination,
. Bright feathers; or Some North American birds of beauty. Illustrated with drawings made from nature, and carefully colored by hand . hose whoare conversant with its habit, is the resolution it displays in refusing toincubate the alien eggs of the Cow-bird, by whom this bird is frequentlyvictimized. Seemingly too indolent to speed to her own home, the femaleof the Cow Black-bird very frequently avails herself of the nests of otherand smaller birds in which to deposit her eggs, thus ridding herself ofthe cares of incubation and provision for her helpless progeny. With persistent determination, however, the Summer Warbler re-fuses the additional burden, and with remarkable sagacity makes shiftto avoid the hateful imposition even to the length of sacrificing itsown eggs and giving up its nest. When disinclined to proceed to thisextremity, it will rebuild a new structure immediately over and uponthe original one, burying beneath it the alien egg, and such of its ownas may be therein, and proceed as it originally intended. Should asecond trespass be committed on the new nest, it will frequently repeat BRIGHT FE. 1 hi. i.—Three-stor\ Home in rHE Summer Warbler. Aboui acti \i size. THE SUMMER WARBLER. 7i
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