. The oist . ds that were fleeing from thestorm king for their lives, as I assume the same was true ofevery other town in that part of thecountry. In the little hotel in that town ishung the picture of five brutes takenwith their five guns, surrounded withsome hundreds of poor dead duckswith the statement that it occurredNovember 10, 1911. This shows thestate of public sentiment there andthose poor birds that fled that day be-fore the wind and the cold and thesnow, will not last long unless some-thing is done to save them. A Careless Cowbird. A certain female Cowbird whichs
. The oist . ds that were fleeing from thestorm king for their lives, as I assume the same was true ofevery other town in that part of thecountry. In the little hotel in that town ishung the picture of five brutes takenwith their five guns, surrounded withsome hundreds of poor dead duckswith the statement that it occurredNovember 10, 1911. This shows thestate of public sentiment there andthose poor birds that fled that day be-fore the wind and the cold and thesnow, will not last long unless some-thing is done to save them. A Careless Cowbird. A certain female Cowbird whichspent the spring and summer in thislocality was addicted to very peculiarhabits; in fact, her eccentricities car-ried her so far as to utterly disre-gard one of the most fundamentalruels of conventional Cowbird behav-ior. This particular Cowbird arrivedfrom the South sometime late inApril,—at least she was on the placewith her polygamist mate and at leastone of his other wives when I arrived THE OOLOGIST 888. (U I Z co 4> 884 THE OOLOGIST from the southern part of the statethe first week in May. For three orfour weeks they flew about the place,the male evidently doing nothing butshowing off from the top of a talldead birch or driving a rival suitoraway from his wives, while the fe-males walked around among the cowsin the stumpy pastures and fed uponthe flies, which followed them. In the meantime, a pair of Chest-nut-sided Warblers had begun a nestin a raspberry bush in a patch ofbrush not more than thirty feet fromthe side of our house, which was thenin course of construction. On May31st, this nest was finished and oneegg was laid. This I thought was thechance for Mrs. Cowbird. But threedays passed, and each day saw an-other egg until four were laid and theset finished, but still no Cowbirds female warbler sat patiently onthese eggs, and could almost be touch-ed before she would leave the nest,until on the morning of June 12th,just nine days after the last egg wasla
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