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their rusty brown color and their habit of following the cattle 

 about the pasture to feed on the insects the only good thing 

 they do apparently. 



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Turtle dove's nest: or morning dove's nest. You will know 

 them by their likeness to the pigeon, and by the strange win- 

 nowing sound of their wings as they fly overhead. 



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WMppoorwill : every child of the country has heard this 

 bird of the dark. See the author's story of this bird in "Wild 

 Life Near Home." 



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Cat birds' nest: the cat bird is the slender long slate-col- 

 ored bird of our summer thickets; so named because of its 

 meouw, which sounds like the cat. 



CHAPTER XII 



CALICO AND THE KITTENS 



Calico: so named because of her three colors. Three-col- 

 ored cats are also called "tortoise shell." It is very interest- 

 ing to note that most three-colored cats are females. 



Note : We have read a great deal lately about wild mothers 

 teaching their young to fly and swim and hunt and fight, but 

 this story of Calico, which is true in all its essential points, 

 would show that young squirrels need such parental instruction 

 about as much as young human babies need their parents to 

 teach them how to cry. 



