COIVBIRD. 



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pants of the nest. They accept the attention of their 

 foster-parents long after they could care for them- 

 selves; and when nothing more is to be gained, desert 

 them and join the growing flocks of their kind in the 

 grain fields." 



The rather large egg of the Cowbird is white, evenly 

 speckled with brown. 



