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Identifier: birdlore131911nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ific. Rabbit-hounds share the ownership of the place equally with their masterand mistress, being the captains-in-chief of the cat patrol, with well-under-stood orders to execute all prisoners captured without benefit of trial. Yet,one April morning this year, when the odors of night, with a mere nip offrost, left the scent so heavy and irresistible that the hounds, noses down andtails held gaily, picked up a trail and followed it full cry, at their own sweetwill, before they were a quarter of a mile away, there appeared upon the lawnthree Molly Cottontails, who breakfasted upon the tender grass in a mostleisurely fashion! Evidently they have a warren under a rustic house witha strong brick foundation, and the chain of stone fences act as their highways.The lying down of the lion and the lamb in harmony, surely, is not morestrange than that the hunter and the hunted should both live happily in onegarden. The Robin is surely a conspicuous bird, for his size, song, nesting habits, (128)
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THE ROBINS ROOST (129) I30 Bird- Lore and (I must say it) general stupidity; yet I have tried many times to record allthe Robins nests in the garden, only to find, after leaf-fall, that I have misseda dozen or more. The Ruby-throated Hummingbird, though by no means so silent in hiscomings and goings as many a larger bird, yet is so fleet of wing and so erraticin flight that, though in one year there were four nests within garden limits,two remained undiscovered until after leaf-fall, though one was on the branchof an apple tree under which we sat continually from middle May. Neithercan one be sure that Jennie Wren, who has preempted a particular house,time out of mind, may not suddenly desire a change, even if for the worse,like some of her human prototypes, and betake herself to a tin can half fullof rusty nails on the ledge of an outbuilding. In fact, a Wren once abandonedher tree-box for an old-fashioned glue-pot that hung in the tool-house. Want-ing the glue in a hurry, the pot wa

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