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Title: Birds and nature
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Birds Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : A.W. Mumford, Publisher
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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habit, is said also to nestat times in the hollows of rocky ledges.Two or three white eggs are laid whichare hatched in about twenty-one days. The food of these Cockatoos, and alsoof related species, consists of fruits,seeds, larvae and adult insects. As theyare gregarious, it is said that sometimesflocks will do great damage while feed-ing in freshly planted grain fields, andfor this reason are greatly disliked byagriculturists of the regions they fre-quent, and are destroyed in large num-,bers. This may be done easily, for theyare neither shy nor watchful birds. The elegant and brightly coloredplumage and the graceful movements ofthe Rose-breasted Cockatoos wouldmake them very desirable pets were itnot for their loud and discordant notesor, perhaps more properly, screams.They are also much more noisy thansome of the other species. While theyare easily tamed when young, a cagenever seems to become a pleasing habi-tat for them and their piercing voice isfrequently heard in protest. 38
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K(J.->1. liKl.ASTKD COCK ^ r(Psitlacus rnsiricapilli:Vi I.iffst/r. rnvTDiAMt i»no. •< ALL THINGS COME TO HIM WHO WAITS. The oldest inhabitant of the barnyardcould not remember the time whenBenedict Arnold, or Old Ben, the De-coy/ as he was called, had been young.There was a tradition to the effect thatsome wild geese eggs had been foundin a field one day, brought home andset under a big Buff-Cochin hen; thatsix of the eggs hatched and that thegoslins led their foster mother throughsuch feather raising adventures that tothis day there is a saying in the yard:As bad as the Buff-Cochins troubles. The tradition further stated that fiveof the goslins succumbed to the dan-gers that beset their young lives, andthe recounter invariably added in a lowvoice—always a very low voice—that itwas a great pity Old Ben didnt havethe same luck. Old Ben survived, how-ever, to rule the barnyard with an ironwing and to lure many of his kind toa tragic fate. On a crisp fall day thedecoy and hi

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