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Bird Studies. 



This bird was just two weeks old. The growth in a period of four days 

 is so marked, has been so rapid, and is so clearly shown that a detailed ac- 

 count of it is unnecessary. The reader has only to refer back to the picture 

 taken on June 26th to see all this personally. 



It may be well to state that in this series of pictures the young birds are 

 portrayed as nearly as possible natural size. 



BLUE JAY. SEVENTEEN DAYS OLD. 



Two days later, on July 2d, the chicks walked about the artificial nest 

 that had been made for them, and constantly stood erect exercising the wings 

 by flapping them at short intervals. 



On the 3d of July they left the nest and could fly from perch to perch 



