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Identifier: newenglandmagazi1900bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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sure. POKING DOWN THE WORM. i64 THE ROBINS NEST. mate as he ought. Possibly hethought that while the birds werevery young the mother couldtake the whole care of them; 01it may be that he came when noone was looking. After a while,however, the mother-bird left the
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was only necessary to squeezethe bulb. At first the motherrobin was disturbed by the click-ing of the shutter; she wouldturn and look intently at thelittle opening in the side of thebarn where the camera wasplaced, and was sometimes so startledthat she flew away. After a while, find-ing that no harm came from it, shebecame more quiet, but alwaysshowed that she was aware of thenoise. We noticed that the father-birdwas more easily disturbed and moreready to fly away at the slightest noise.The little birds paid no attentionwhatever to it, even after they hadbecome old enoughto walk out of thenest. While the mother-robin was sitting onthe nest, before thelittle ones werehatched and forsome time after that,the father-bird failedto appear, and wefeared that some ac-cident had happenedto him, or that hewas neglecting hisfamily. After watch-ing a long time, hewas heard singing ina neighboring tree,and we concluded hewas not helping his A LONG WORM. nest more frequently, and then thefather-rob

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