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Title: American bird magazine, ornithology
Identifier: americanbirdmaga31903worc (find matches)
Year: 1903 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Worcester, Mass. : C. K. Reed
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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270 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. appeared in the tree nearby and then she seemed satisfied. One morn- ing early she sought her mate to tell the good news. They returned to the nest together and tenderly talked to the dearest chick that ever was seen, and by night all three were hatched. To me they were naked ugly little things, but they were objects of devoted care by the parent birds. Worms were their food at first, and then an oat-field near by furnished food for the hungry fledglings. They grew rapidly and one morning the old birds coaxed the little ones out of the nest, into the big world, and they were gone. The brilliant plumage of the cardinals makes its end a tragedy. In Louisiana they are hunted and trapped for sale, as cage birds, until they are nearly exterminated. Their pathetic fate appeals to bird lovers, and unless something can be done for their pro- tection the Cardinal Grosbeak will be gone from the wild bird life of this state. Mrs. L. G. Baldwin, La.
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YOUNG GREEN HERONS.

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