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Identifier: birdlore17nati (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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lain, bare branch, with nota leaf to hide it; but the Verdin didnt havemuch choice of sites, for there was nothingfor a mile around except cactus, creosote,and cats-claw. The best a Verdin can dofor self-protection is to make her home looklike a little bundle of drift, roof the housowith thorns, and make the doorway on theunder side. This bird, which I took to be the fe-male, had a morsel in her bill. She hoppedinto the house and was quickly out againand off on the hunt, pajdng no attentionto us. We sat down about fifteen feetaway. In a few moments the male Verdincame headlong with a mouthful of greenmeasuring-worms. He brought up with asurprised jerk and fidgeted as if he didntknow just what to do. He was evidentlysaying to himself, Who are they? Whatdo they want? He came to the conclu-sion he would fool us, so he swallowed thebit and went hunting through an adjoiningbush to show us that he was merely skir-mishing to appease his own appetite, andthat he had neither nest nor children.
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A FAMILY OF CRISSAL THRASHERS NESTING IN A MESQUITE TREE (338) The Audubon Societies 339 When we first found the Verdins nest,the doorway was a round hole in the side.By getting the light just right, we couldlook inside. A week later, when we visitedthe same home, we were surprised not tosee a door at all. The birds evidently and inaccessibility. An open nest, with theeggs exposed out on a bare branch, wouldnot last long in Arizona. This elaboratehome is the result of many generations ofVerdin history. Living in a hostile countryand surrounded by enemies, the Verdin has

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