CIVILIZED BIRDS. 11 
In nesting time civilized birds are glad to get the 
odds and ends of strings and cotton which we give 
them. They chirp about it while they pull at the 
twine, as if they were saying, “ What a blessing it is 
Crow BLACKBIRD. 
to live among civilized people, who give us strings and 
other things to make our cradles of.” 
They like to scratch in the hay and chaff for kernels 
of grain. When you see the birds about the barn- 
doors, or under the shed at the grain, watch them and 
