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Identifier: birdlore11nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ri)w to be both new and of interest. In the first jjlace, I was interested in imling the selection of the nesting-boxi)y the Wrens. All mv cocoanut shells, which were securely suspended by heavywires from the limbs of trees, so as to be cal-i)roof, were not fancied, and a small-sized, old wooden box, on the top of an eight-foot trellis, was chosen. The feeding of my young Wrens was done entirely by the female, who drovethe unwilling male from the nesting-site the second or third day after the youngwere hatched. Several times during the first two days following incubation, themale appeared at the box with food for his offspring. However, these effortswere not accejjtable to her ladyship, who severely scolded her consort each timehe thus appeared. For a day or two after this, the banished male could be heard
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202 Bird-Lore singing from a distant tree, and then he disappeared entirely from the premisesuntil the young were ready to leave their box, some two weeks later. Two daysbefore the departure of the young from the box, the father returned, and wasseen to carry a horse-hair into the box, though the latter was filled to overflowingwith five fully fledged young. The day after the young left the nest, the male,singing constantly, remained about the box all day, and spent some time tearingdown the old nest and flinging horse-hair, fine stripped bark and small twigsto the ground. These actions indicated that the male, who took no more partin caring for the young after they left the nest than he had done before, possessedthe nest-building instinct at an ineffectual time, and when it was absent in thefemale. Now, if these facts can be taken as a criterion for the actions of otherindividual House Wrens, they may readily explain the presence in former years,,of nest-building single males, which

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