Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 638
among birds is thecase of the European cuckoo. This bird never I-J BIRDS AND THEIR FAMILIES. 60/ builds a nest, or shows the least love or even recog-nition of its young. The cuckoo always selects thenest of a bird much smaller than itself, and as itseggs are much smaller than those usually laid by… … SOUTH AMERICAN OSTRICH. young cuckoo is hatched he begins to grow veryfast, and as he is larger and stronger than the othernestlings, he manages to get the lions share of thefood which the old birds bring to the nest. It wouldseem as if robbing his foster brothers and sisters ofpart of their nest,…
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