Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 554
ix eggs. These are white and almost round,with a texture like the finest china. Whenfirst hatched the young are queer-looking peep in response to the mothers call, noscratch for worm or grub; but, helpless, theseweaklings wait on their dry, soft bed, to befed and hovered by the old birds. During… … A HOLE IN THE OLD TREE IN WHICH A SCREECH-OWL S NEST(FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.) chicks. Except that they are evidently birds, for their food is largely insects and mice, dev- they bear no resemblance to their parents, astators alike of house and field. Somewhat smaller than a common chicken, they show…
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