Familiar Studies of Wild Birds 



surprised when the first of the three young in 

 this brood, slipping through my fingers, soared 

 away as if it had flown for many a month. 

 But my patience was severely tried before I 

 succeeded in inducing the remaining two to 

 sit still long enough to be photographed. Just 

 as they were well placed the irate parents, 

 darting down with sonorous whirring of wings, 

 would set them off into another paroxysm of 

 activity. Once having seen the outside world, 

 they refused thereafter to remain in their 

 former home; but their chirps in the tree-tops 

 during following days were evidence that they 

 did not immediately leave the vicinity. 



