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Identifier: cu31924000132005 (find matches)
Title: Birds of lakeside and prairie
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Clark, Edward Brayton, 1860-
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Chicago, New York, A. W. Mumford
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ng-tree, even for themoment needed to feed his faithful wife. For fully two min-utes the air was filled with jay ejaculations of wrath and con-tempt, and none of these ejaculations came from Mr. Jay.He took the tirade meekly. The pitch of Mrs. Jays voice,coupled with the choice selection of adjectives which shehurled at her husband, brought an interested audience, com-posed of all the bird residents of the neighborhood. Finallymadame broke off short and made her way back in all haste g6 Birds of Lakeside and Prairie to cover her eggs from the chill air of the morning. Theinstant his wife was off for home, Mr. Jay darted down intoa thicket and at once reappeared with a fat morsel of foodwith which he struck out like a blue streak for the nest in theoak. He fed Mrs. Jay, and a satisfactory snap-shot photo-graph was taken of the operation. After feeding his wife, thehusband looked at her and uttered the one mellifluous noteknown to the jay language, and Mrs. Jay, womanlike, wasmollified.
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CHAPTER X COMEDY AND TRAGEDY In the birds year the season of song is the season of trag-edy. The wonder is that during the nest-building timebirds have the heart to sing at all. Danger is ever present,and it is probably not an exaggeration to say that disasterattends at least one-half of the attempts of the songsters torear their young. There are so many casualties among birdhomes that the nesting season holds for the field student rathermore of pain than of pleasure. It has struck me many timesthat the birds must feel that the whole world is against themwhen they are trying so patiently and so bravely to see thattheir kind does not perish from the earth. From the momentthat the first egg appears the shadow of danger is across thethreshold of the little home. There are the perils of windand flood, of egg-loving snakes, and of egg-collecting boys.A little later, when the young appear, there is danger fromprowling cats and looting owls, and from men nest-robbers,who pretend to think tha

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