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piper and would incline one to believe they lacked individuality. 

 Quite the opposite was true; each one was highly individualized, 

 so that it could be distinguished easily by some marked trait. 

 For instance, one bird on leaving the nest invariably ran directly 

 towards me, no matter from what direction I came or how close I 

 was, and walked about my feet in imminent danger of being trod 



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upon, if I confined my attention to the camera. Though two 

 others were much tamer, neither showed this surprising trait. 

 The action was not threatening, but anxious or merely nervous. 

 A second bird developed a habit of lifting the grasses, we trod 

 down about its nest, a third was quite shy and two others were 

 extremely tame. Furthermore the flight songs of the three 

 brooders I heard sing, were characteristically different and easily 

 distinguishable. 



Discovering how guileless the two tame parents were, I naturally 

 devoted most of my time to them. One was the owner of the 

 Eel-grass nest in the marsh, the other of the grass nest in the field. 

 This bird hereafter designated the "marsh bird," was disclosed to 

 us by a village boy, who was trying to catch her with his cap, a 

 trick which he probably would have accomplished. Even while 



