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long, and at night those four gaping 

 mouths will come up as readily as in the 

 morning. 



You would never know that Mrs. Blue- 

 bird's young family were bluebirds, for 

 they are black as coals. It is not until 

 they have been out of the nest for some 

 time that they put on any shade of blue. 



Mrs. Towhee Bunting, also called 

 cheewink, is very much annoyed by the 

 cowbird, a lazy brown bird that inhabits 

 cow-pastures. This lazy bird will not 

 build a nest of her own, but lays her eggs 

 in the nests of her cousin, the cheewink. 

 Mrs. Cheewink always brings up the 

 orphan cowbirds as carefully as she does 

 her own, but she usually raises another 

 brood and hides her nest so skilfully that 

 the cowbird cannot find it. 



I once knew of a cheewink who was 

 so annoyed at finding the cowbird's egg 



