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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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^ ofapproach in all cases. Who will send in observations on this point?—A. H. W.) FROM ADULT OBSERVERS Some Experiences with a Bird Nursery The two Rose-breasted Grosbeaks shown in the photograph were given tous by a neighbor, last June,—the one on the right, a male, on the sixteenth,and the other, a female, two days later. We named them Hansel and Gretel,and reared them until they were able to care for themselves. When firstfound, neither could have been long out of the nest. It was a day or two before Gretel, the younger, could balance herself ona perch, and for about the same length of time she had to be fed, largely withmilk from a fountain-pen filler, as she generally refused to open her mouthfor food. She would give a plaintive, hungry cry every little while; but neithercoaxing movements of the food-laden tweezers, nor encouraging chirps,seemed to have the necessary moral leverage on the stubby little bill. At last,
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TWO BIRDS AND A BOV (319) 320 Bird-Lore the whistled imitation of the Grosbeaks song was tried, and—was it only acoincidence?—the hungry mouth opened at once. From that time on, theonly reason to complain was from the bills being open too much of the time, A cage was made by rolling a strip of galvanized iron netting, with a half-inch mesh, into a circular cylinder about eighteen inches high and two feetin diameter. This was placed on a layer of newspapers upon a low table neara well-lighted bay-window, or sometimes taken on to the lawn. A squarepiece of the same netting was laid over the top, for a cover. Thin sticks, runthrough horizontally, served as perches. In point of simplicity and conven-ience, this left little to be desired. Their food consisted chiefly of earthworms, moist bread, hard-boiled eggs,bits of raw meat, and berries, all of which were very acceptable. Water was,of course, frequently given. A long, slender pair of tweezers, of the kind usedfor mounting insects,

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