IDYLLS OF BIRD LIFE 
young birds were scattering everywhere and in ten seconds not 
one w T as to be seen. The parent bird flattened himself to earth 
and I could not see him. It was onlv afterward that he became 
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visible. Almost tramping on him he flew to the farther bank 
of the narrow stream. 
I did not see my new acquaintance any more, as this was 
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my last visit to them; although I probably ran across them later 
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to southern climes, because I flushed two large bevies,- one of 
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which located in this neighborhood. All the birds were large 
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and fully developed individuals. Owing to legislation recently 
passed by the state of Ohio the Bob White is now placed on the 
song bird list, but it is a question if the birds will really be 
benefited by this act. 
“For now the bevies are abroad, 
To seek in stubble-fields their feed, 
Or where the bushy covert drops 
Its juicy wreath, its ripen’d seed.” 
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