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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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-stands on end,increasing hersize three- orfour - fold. Herjavelin-like billpoints threaten-ingly, and herglittering yelloweyes sight alongit in a most sav-age manner. Letones hand ap-proach withinstriking distanceand, like a flash,the needle pointis driven into hisflesh and with-drawn againalmost before hiseye perceivesany movementon the part ofthe bird. Such fierce devotion to duty one scarcely expects from one of the timid Heron family.Thus far we have been discussing the behavior of the female bird. Butwhat we have described applies also to the male, though in a lesser degree, indemonstrations of courage and devotion. He seemed to share the duties ofincubation equally with the female, although I could not determine that theyfollowed any regular schedule in changing places. While the female wasincubating, the male could often be heard calling. His notes were guttural and
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THE FEMALE LEAST BITTERX ASSUMING THE ROTATING-REED POSTURE ON THE BACK OF THE NEST 430 Bird-Lore dovelike, or even froglike when heard in the distance, resembling the syllables,uh-fih-uh-oo-oo-oo-oo oooah, similar to one of the calls of the Pied-billed Grebe.The call, when given close at hand, often drew a response from the female oftwo or three short notes, like the syllables uk-iik-uk. Both birds showed considerable uneasiness at the approach of the MarshWrens, at their quick movements as they passed often but a few inches below the nest, and attheir calls, par-ticularly the onewhich sounds somuch like thegrating of teeth;but they showedno fear of theswish of the Red-wings over theirheads. This un-easiness wasparticularly no-ticeable whenthe bird wasaway from thenest; for it wouldhasten back withsuch signs ofalarm that onecould not butthink that itrecognized theWren as its arch-enemy. (SeeChapman, BirdStudies with aCamera, p. 72.)Wh en the nest was discovered, it contained five egg

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