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Title: Baby birds at home
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928
Subjects: Birds -- Behavior Birds -- Juvenile literature
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Cassell and company, ltd.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ite underneath, streaked withbrown. The female is only some eight-and-ahalf inches in length, and her mate even some-what smaller. Mice, small birds, moths, grasshoppers,beetles, worms, and all kinds of insects aregreedily eaten by this bird. Holes in old trees, rocks, and the roofs ofhouses are used for breeding purposes. Theeggs number from four to six, are oval inshape, and pure white. The Little Owl breeds close to Londonand is a great hater of cats, crying out inangry chattering notes whenever it espies oneof these animals. Although mobbed by blackbirds, chaf-finches, and other feathered creatures, whohave reason to dislike it, this wee owl feeds itsyoung ones, all day long, in the most uncon-cerned manner. It darts like a flash intothe nesting hole with the food, and if thereis anything in the neighbourhood calculatedto arouse its suspicions, peeps out cautiouslyto see if the coast is clear before leavinghome again. The young are clothed in soft,white down, and look very quaint.
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CORMORANTS. The Common Cormorant THE Common Cormorant is decidedly abird of character and intelligence.Both the Chinese and Japanese have for cen-turies trained it to catch fish for them, and itis interesting to note, by the way, that thispeculiar sport was introduced into Europesome time during the seventeenth century.James I. of England was very fond of watch-ing his trained Cormorants catch fish for him,and his son Charles I. inherited his fatherstastes in this direction. This bird is easily tamed and soon be-comes attached to its owner. A pair of Cormorants has been known tofeed and rear a family of young ravens, whoseparents had met with an untimely end. The Cormorant secures its prey by divingand swimming under water after it, and canswallow fish of large size. After a mealyou may often see a number of these birdsstanding in a row on some rock, with heads 35 36 Baby Birds at Home raised and wings stretched out in full en-joyment of a rest in the sunshine. Tall tree tops, ledges

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