. Nestlings di foresta e di palude . non uno reso strano dalla paura, e quando i bambini erano fuori, ho avuto myreward. Per quanto ho potuto vedere, hanno guardato appena altri piccoli catbirds, ma i genitori sawa grande differenza. Il maschio spesso stoodat il nido che guarda giù su di loro senza ammirazione mascherata, evocando così il mandrino animpatient dall'uccello più pratico della madre. Quello che voleva per i thoselittle era cibo, non adulazione; i theirmouts erano aperti, alcuni devono cacciare, e per la sua parte era sufficiente per haveported tali creature meravigliose fuori delle conchiglie. Eppure ha preso la sua parte giusta della la

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. Nestlings of forest and marsh . not one rendered strange by fear, and when the babies were out, I had myreward. So far as I could see, they looked just likeother young catbirds, but the parents sawa wide difference. The male often stoodat the nest looking down upon them withundisguised admiration, thereby evoking animpatient chuck from the more practicalmother bird. What she wanted for thoselittle ones was food, not adulation ; theirmouths were open, some one must hunt, and for her part it was enough to havebrought such wonderful creatures out ofthe shells. Yet she took her fair share ofthe labor, searching under the leaves and.in the crotches for insects while her spousebrought caterpillars. It seemed to me therewere fewer earthworms and more ants andspiders in the catbird menu than is usualwith soft-billed birds. There were no ber-214 MONSIEUR MISCHIEF ries near, and yet one day I saw the fatherbird fly home across the fields carrying abright red raspberry in his beak. I wasnot there to see whether this was given to. A tilt between a bluebird and a catbird, each four weeks old the mother or the nestlings, so do not knowwhether it forms part of an infants diet.He carried it so that it looked like a redthimble on the end of his beak, and couldbe seen a long way off. After this Iwatched for signs of more berries at everycatbirds nest, but found none. In a hollow fence-post near the catbirds, afamily of bluebirds were hatched at the same 215 NESTLINGS OF FOREST AND MARSH time, and it was most interesting to noticehow much more slowly the latter developed.When the catbird babies were fully dressedin pinfeathers, the down had scarcely begunto show on the bluebirds. Their eyes werethree days later in opening, and the birdsthemselves were only half the size. Bothfamilies were very late, and were second, or possibly third, broods, as they werehatched July 10, long after the first bluebirdbrood had flown. A propos of this, a pair of bluebirds hadreared a brood in that same p

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