STEP-PARENTS AMONG BIRDS. 9] 
Sadducees (In heaven whose wife will she be ?) does not 
worry the birds much. White, of Selborne, notes 
many similar instances, and others have experimented 
till they determined that as many as seven successive 





Magpie and nest. 
spouses would be found very quickly by suddenly 
bereft pies, daws, rooks, owls, hawks, eagles, and 
others of either sex. 
