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up tempting bits of pancake, showed it to them, and laid 
it down in front of them, but there they stood, helpless, 
trembling in their desire. Finally he snatched up pieces and 
thrust them down in a hurry to finish the filling process. 
All that day and for two following weeks he returned with 
his youngsters out of the near-by thicket of salal and ever- 
green huckleberry every time the table was reset, but in 
about a week, the mottled birds had learned awkwardly to 
| Oregon—Taken by Mrs. C. EL Forsyth 
Father and Young Towhee 
feed themselves although they much preferred to have their 
father do it. | | 
Their croaking call was very different from the ‘me- 
yay” strain or the mewing tone, which the grown birds use 
as a means of keeping in touch with one another, and which 
has caused boys to call them Catbirds, although the real 
Catbird is a very different species; and is quite a rare 
visitor in the Northwest. Even with the young birds, their 
landlady soon recognized their different voices. One bird’s 
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