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Identifier: americanornithol21902reed (find matches)
Title: American ornithology for the home and school
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert), 1876-1912
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Worcester, Mass. : C.K. Reed
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icular birds. The male was one of the brightest of Redstarts that I have ever seen.He was very proud and conceited too. His mate too was fully as beau-tiful. Undoubtedly she knew more about house-building than he, althoughshe could not convince him, and whenever she objected to his mannerof doing the work, he promptly drove her away with seemingly savage,yet playful snapping of his beak. They were exceedingly active in alltheir movements, and the way they would dodge around trees, overand under the brush, taxed my eyes to follow their movements. In theend, as is generally the case, she had her way about everything, for assoon as his back was turned to go on another journey after buildingmaterial, she would set to work to arrange everything as she wished.Naturally, with so much play, the nest grew very slowly and it wasover a week from the time I first saw them before the first ^^^ waslaid. A week later the nest contained four possibilities of future Redstarts 3o6 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY.
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Photo from life by C. A. Reed. MALE REDSTART FEEDING HIS YOUNG. (This is the same nest as shown in the previous photos, but is tal<en from another quarter.), AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 307 and I decided it was time for me to act if I wished any record of thisnest, as I knew from experience the sad results that are very apt tooccur should a nest be found by certain beasts, birds, or boys. Withlittle diiTficulty I secured a good likeness of the female as she was aboutto descend to the eggs. The male bird at this time was literally outof a job for I never saw him assist her in the duties of incubation andonly once did I see him feed her while she was on the nest. Most ofhis time appeared to be spent in the tops of the taller trees catchinginsects and driving away all other small birds that came anywhere nearhim. With the advent of the young birds came an end to his period of loaf-ing and he did his duty manfully and with a great deal of enthusiasm.On an average of about once in every five

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