_ yourself” attitude until a baby picked up his own morsel. 
There came a day, finally, when the adults decided that? 
their spring duties weré ended. In spite of continual 
begging, they paid no attention to the youngsters but flew 
from one tree to another, followed by the duncolored trio, 
which were now as large as their parents, although the 
roughness of their plumage and an occasional bit of down 
showed that they were young birds. Finally the flight 
Oregon—-Taken by Mrs. C. E. Forsyth 
Young Towhee 
ended at the table where, overcome by unger, the young 
awkwardly fed themselves. 
Did that pair of Oregon Towhees sigh with relief 
_ because their yearly burden of providing for others was 
finished? Be that as it may, when the retirement of the 
moulting August was over, the father bird appeared once 
in the very early morning at an open window, hopped down 
147 | 
