NESTLINGS OF FOREST AND MARSH 
He never failed to greet us with the same 
polite protest, and not once did I go there 
and find him off guard. Possibly his 
former sad experience had warned him of 
danger, for this family were reared in safety. 
Baby thrashers, ten days old 
When they were six days old, we pho- 
tographed them, and again on the eighth 
day. Their wing and tail feathers were a 
soft red brown where they were out of the 
quills, and brown feathers *covered head 
and back. The underparts were sparsely 
feathered in white, striped at the sides of 
the throat and spotted on the breast with 
brown, like the adult thrashers. Large 
yellow bills and very long yellowish legs 
gave them an overgrown appearance, like 
a schoolboy who has outstripped his clothes. 
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