File:Nature neighbors, embracing birds, plants, animals, minerals, in natural colors by color photography, containing articles by Gerald Alan Abbott, Dr. Albert Schneider, William Kerr Higley...and other (14750622722).jpg

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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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e European cuckoo, which, like our cowbird, lays its eggsin the nests of other birds; but our cuckoos rear their ownyoung, though there is a carelessness about the nestinghabits even in our own species. Mr. Frank M. Chapmansays: * There is something about the cuckoos actions whichalways suggests to me that he either has done or is about todo something he should not. It is more easy to hear theseretiring birds than to see them, as they avoid the outerbranches of trees, and fly from the protecting foliage of onetree directlj^ into the middle branches of another, so that itis difficult to see them except on the flight from tree to tree. The nesting habits of the two species are so nearly iden-tical that the differences have already been pointed out inthe descriptions of the nesting habits of the yellow-billedcuckoo. The cuckoo usually utters his soft and beautifulnotes of Cuch-oo-oo, cuck-oo-oo as he flies, but only, as arule, when a few yards from the place on which he intendsalighting.
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