THINGS TO SEE THIS SUMMER 21 



the size of small pea-beans or its two tiny young 

 that are up and off on their marvelous wings within 

 three weeks from the time the eggs are laid ! 



Have you read Mr. William L. Finley's story of 

 the California condor's nest ? The hummingbird 

 young is oat and gone within three weeks ; but the 

 condor young is still in the care of its watchful par- 

 ents three months after it is hatched. You ought to 

 watch the slow, guarded youth of one of the larger 

 hawks or owls during the summer. Such birds 

 build very early, before the snow is gone some- 

 times, but they are to be seen feeding their young 

 far into the summer. The wide variety in bird-life, 

 both in size and habits, will be made very plain to 

 you if you will watch the nests of two such birds as 

 the hummer and the vulture or the eagle. 



VI 



This is the season of flowers. But what among 

 them should you especially see? Some time ago one 

 of the school-teachers near me brought in a list 

 of a dozen species of wild orchids, gathered out of 

 the meadows, bogs, and woods about the neighbor- 

 hood. Can you do as well? 



Suppose, then, that you try to find as many. They 

 were the pink lady's-slipper ; the yellow lady's-slip 

 per; the yellow f ringed-orchis (Habenaria ciliaris) ; 



