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Title: Baby birds at home
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928
Subjects: Birds -- Behavior Birds -- Juvenile literature
Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Cassell and company, ltd.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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resorts to the most secluded hedge-rows, old lanes, and thickets where it maybe seen by the quiet observer hopping aboutfrom twig to twig carefully examining theunder side of leaf after leaf, in quick suc-cession for insects. If it happens to catchsight of you it will at once retire, andmost likely scold you for intruding upon itsprivacy. It is not a very accomplished musician,but during sultry weather practises its notesso persistently that they become monotonousto some listeners. The nest is generally built in a positionhigher than that chosen by the CommonWhitethroat, but it is not so deep inside. Itis made of dead grass stems and cobwebs,lined with horsehair or fine rootlets. The four or five eggs are white or lightcreamy white in colour, slightly tinged withgreen, and spotted with ash grey andgreenish brown. The chicks are very shy, and will hop outof the nest and make their way through thebramble or blackthorn bush, in which theyhave been reared, even before they are ableto fly.
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The Robin WHO does not know and love RobinRedbreast ? His gay appearance andbold confiding manners endear him to youngand old alike. In the winter when Jack Frostreigns supreme he frequents our window-sillsand doorsteps, with an air and attitude thattell us quite plainly he not only wishes butexpects to be fed, and in the springtime herepays our kindness by ridding the garden ofall the injurious grubs and insects he can find.A cock Robin is not easily distinguishedfrom a hen of the species. He is just atrifle larger and his colours are somewhatbrighter, that is all. Many boys and girlshave an idea that a wren is a femaleRobin, and an old poet, making the samegreat mistake, has written : The robin and the wrenAre God Almightys cock and hen. Robins are noted for the very oddplaces in which they sometimes build their L 81 82 Baby Birds at Home nests. The interiors of tea-pots, coffee-pots,biscuit boxes, water cans, and even thehusks of coco-nuts are sometimes chosen.The rusty water-can s

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