IDYLLS OF BIRD LIFE 
was watching him this dropped off. In a short while Mr. Bob 
White joined his family and he and his mate proceeded to teach 
the young birds what they might eat. The young of the Bob 
White are precocious and proceed to feed themselves immedi¬ 
ately after they are born. 
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As I was watching from my cramped position, a shrill note 
of warning issued from the throat of the mother bird, and in a ^ 
few seconds all the chicks, I can’t understand to this 
thev did it, were safely tucked under their mother’s win 
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teen of them securely hidden away from danger, which this time /-S" 
proved to be a Cooper’s hawk intent on his morning’s brea 
fast. But he was not to feed on this brood of chicks, thanks 
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their mother’s watchfulness. After the danger had passed, the 
fledglings emerged from under their protection of wings and 
proceeded with their lessons on what not to eat. Half flying, 
half running about, they gathered weeds of various kinds and 
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some berries that I could not identify, although they must have V'yy ; 
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been from the last year’s growth. With the aid of my field 
glasses I saw them take insects from the ground and under- 
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growth about them. The birds seemed to have forgotten aboijt 
their recent home, and they did not visit it during that day. '; ^ ; 
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