Identifier: wisconsinbirdstu1906mitc (find matches)
Title: Wisconsin bird-study bulletin
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Mitchell, I. N Mitchell, I. N., Mrs Barnett, Maud
Subjects: Birds Bird watching
Publisher: Madison : C.P. Cary, State Superintendent
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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getting rid of it. The mother instinct keeps them from abandoningtheir own eggs so they suffer the imposition and, as a rule, never geteven. But occasionally there is a warbler or other bird that does geteven. The nest is sometimes abandoned, sometimes the eggs only aresacrificed, a new nest being built on top of the old one and a newclutch of eggs being laid. Florence A. Merriam in her delightful book, Birds of Village andField, states that sometimes the shameless cowbird lays eggs in thissecond nest, when the undaunted warblers actually build a third storyand start again. The warblers are very valuable friends of the farmer because theyeat vast numbers of small insects and the eggs and young of insects. They search over the finer parts of shrubs and trees, the twigs andleaves, flowers and fruits, picking off the enemies of these parts. Likethe cedar-bird and flycatchers they dart off into the air for passing in-sects, returning again and again to the same or to a neighboring perch.
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124 BOB-WHITE. 289. Colinus virginianus. (Linn.) 3 Life-size. COPYRIGHT 1900, WFORD, CHICAGC WISCONSIN BIRD-STUDY BULLETIN. 15 BOB WHITE, QUAIL. Resident in Central and Southern Wisconsin; length ten inches,sexes much alike; ivhite of male replaced hy buff on the female; neston the ground, made of grasses, twigs, weeds and leaves; eggs ten totwenty-five, usually ten to eighteen. Bob White! Old- Bob—White! There he is, just beyond the fence on that stump! How fine hei looks! There he gees again. Bob AVhite! What a clear ringing whistle! I wonder if we can call him nearer. With my fingers,, I imitate his alto notes Bob White! and he whistles back, Bob White! I try again, he answers again. We whistle back and forth for several minutes.Now he disappears from the stump; we wait patiently, partly hiddenby some roadside bushes; now and then we catch glimpses of his headbobbing forward and back through the grass. Again we whistle, —Old Bob White! comes the answer, not far away. There he i

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