Identifier: americanornithol05reed (find matches)
Title: American ornithology, for home and school
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert), 1876-1912
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: (Worcester, Mass. : Charles K. Reed)
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ime bore little resemblance to a Cow-bird. He would sit upon theground, with feathers ruffled and head drawn back upon his shoulders,and instead of walking, would run with short, quick steps; but whenstartled his feathers would lie slick and close, and with head thrust for-ward, he would walk about,—a credit to his family. Dick showedno fear, even of strangers, and if he wandered away would come quiet-ly at Mr. Saunders call. He became so tame in time that he made frequent excursions into thehouse, going from one room to another. Everyone became much attached to him and wondered if he wouldleave in the Fall and if he would return in the Spring; but all predic-tions failed as he came to an untimely end on the fifth of July, when afox-terrier pounced upon him and before help could come to his rescue Dicks life-story had been told. We mourned his loss and buriedhim with far more tenderness than we were wont to accord to his va-grant relatives. WILBUR F. SMITH. AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 175
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Photo from life by .las. U. Miller.FLICKER AT NEST HOLE. 176 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. THE DAUGHTERLESS FLICKERS, Eugenia Chapman Gillette. I wonder if all the Flicker babies of last season were boys! Of allthe families that came imder my observation, not one could boast a girlbaby. Does that indicate a war in peckerdom? I was watching three families closely and caught casual glimpses ofa good many others. These three families consisted of four, five andsix children respectively,—with the regulation two parents per nest.And of these twenty-one birds, the three mothers were the only oneswithout the black mustachios. And all the Flicker school children Imet by the way were boys. The family that was blessed with six sons lived in a tall oak tree bythe lake. Had they but opened their door in the right direction, theywould have commanded a magnificient view of the rarest gem of a lake.But that door, round as Giottas O, opened diametrically opposite tothe point where it should, the whole bole

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