The Burgess Bird Book for Children 



but usually in the Green Forest where it is dark and 

 lonesome. Like Mrs. Nighthawk, she lays only 

 two. It's the same way with another second 

 cousin, Chuck-will's-widow." 



"Who?" cried Peter, wrinkling his brows. 



"Chuck-will's-widow," Jenny Wren fairly 

 shouted it. "Don't you know Chuck-will's- 

 widow?" 



Peter shook his head. "I never heard of such 

 a bird," he confessed. 



"That's what comes of never having traveled," 

 retorted Jenny Wren. "If you'd ever been in the 

 South the way I have you would know Chuck- 

 will's-widow. He looks a whole lot like the other 

 two we've been talking about, but has even a 

 bigger mouth. What's more, he has whiskers 

 with branches. Now you needn't look as if you 

 doubted that, Peter Rabbit; it's so. In his 

 habits' he's just like his cousins, no nest and only 

 two eggs. I never saw people so afraid to raise a 

 real family. If the Wrens didn't do better than 

 that, I don't know what would become of us." 

 You know Jenny usually has a family of six or 

 eight. 



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