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Identifier: storiesaboutbird00kirb (find matches)
Title: Stories about birds of land and water
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Kirby, Mary, 1817-1893 Kirby, Elizabeth, 1823-1873
Subjects: Birds -- Juvenile literature
Publisher: Hartford (Conn.) : American Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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known hberty, and does not therefore regret the loss of it. It is veryaffectionate, and becomes so famihar that it will hop about the table, andperch on its mistresss shoulder. It lives a long time. One that was hatched in a cage, lived with thesame mistress twenty-six years. 15° STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. THE CUCKOO. The order of climbers includes some birds that can hardly be said to climb,,though they Hve much among the branches of trees.
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There is a large grey bird that comes to us in spring, just when theleaves are budding, and the meadows are beginning to be covered withflowers. When we hear his well-known note we know that summer is near.His song has no great variety in it. It is but a repetition of the well-knownword, cuckoo ! cuckoo ! but perhaps no other note gives us more pleasure,. THE CUCKOO. 151 He is the lowest of his tribe as regards his chmbing powers. Nor doeshe use his bill in the least, like the parrot, for helping himself to climb or forclinging ; nor, like the woodpecker, for digging into the bark of trees. Yet,after his fashion, he can climb about on the trees, though he cannot mount up

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