Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 282
r. Eliot said that a flock of these birds, the Bohemian waxwings,. were then up onCouncil Crest, a hill overlooking the city. We immediately started off to see them. Aswe left the car and walked along, we sighted themin a tree near by. We watched them until theyflew farther up the hill, and we had… … BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS whole, so they tried to peck them to pieces.Their beaks were not strong enough to do this,so they tried to swallow them anyhow. Some-times a bird would fly up with one in his mouth,but he always dropped it and went to another,sometimes larger and sometimes smaller than thelast,…
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