14 BIRD WORLD. 



The gentleness of the summer Yellowbirds wins 

 our love. They are as sunny in their temper as in 

 their looks. " Pretty is that pretty does " never need 

 put them to shame. 



The Cowbirds have long since found it out and, like 

 the naughty birds they are, have taken advantage of 

 it; but gentle people, if they will not quarrel, will not 

 always suffer their own plans to be turned aside. The 

 Cowbird sometimes finds his match, as we shall see. 

 The following little word-picture will show you how a 

 Yellowbird's nest looked to Mr. Keyser, and what 

 the bird did when she found herself imposed upon. 



" The nest of the Summer Warbler was a dainty 

 structure, composed of downy material, and deftly 

 lodged among the twigs of a sapling at the foot of a 

 cliff. A cold spring gurgled from the rocks near by ; 

 the willows and buttonwood trees bent to the balmy 

 breeze, and the tinkling of the brook mingled with 

 the songs of many birds. 



" Our little strategist comes home and finds a Cow- 

 bird's ^^^ dropped into her nest. She begins forth- 

 with to add another story, and this leaves the interloper 

 in the cellar, with a floor between it and her warm 

 breast. I have found several of these exquisite towers 

 that were three stories high, in the top of which the 

 little bird sat perched like a goddess on the summit 

 of Olympia." 



