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My Studio Neighbors
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W. Hamilton Gibson
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Who
can
tell
what
the
future
may
develop
in
the
nests
of
other
birds
whose
homes
are
similarly
invaded?
I
doubt
not
that
this
crying
cow-bird
and
cuckoo
evil
comes
up
as
a
matter
of
consideration
in
bird
councils.
The
two-storied
nest
may
yet
become
the
fashion
in
featherdom,
in
which
case
the
cow-bird
and
European
cuckoo
would
be
forced
to
build
nests
of
their
own
or
perish.
But
have
we
fully
examined
this
nest
of
our
yellow
warbler?
Even
now
the
lower
section
seems
more
bulky
than
the
normal
nest
should
be.
Can
we
not
trace
still
another
faint
outline
of
a
transverse
division
in
the
fabric,
about
an
inch
below
the
one
already
separated?
Yes;
it
parts
easily
with
a
little
disentangling
of
the
fibres,
and
another
spotted
egg
is
seen
within.
A
three-storied
nest!
A
nest
full
of
stories--certainly.
I
recently
read
of
a
specimen
containing
four
stories,
upon
the
top
of
which
downy
pile
the
little
warbler
sat
like
Patience
on
a
monument,
presumably
smiling
at
the
discomfiture
of
the
outwitted
cow-bird
parasite,
who
had
thus
exhausted
her
powers
of
mischief
for
the
season,
and
doubtless
convinced
herself
of
the
folly
of
"putting
all
her
eggs
in
one
basket."
When
we
consider
the
life
of
the
cow-bird,
how
suggestive
is
this
spectacle
which
we
may
see
every
year
in
September
in
the
chuckling
flocks
massing
for
their
migration,
occasionally
fairly
blackening
the
trees
as
with
a
mildew,
each
one
the
visible
witness
of
a
double
or
quadruple
cold-blooded
murder,
each
the
grim
substitute
for
a
whole
annihilated
singing
family
of
song-sparrow,
warbler,
or
thrush!
What
a
blessing,
at
least
humanly
speaking,
could
the
epicurean
population
en
route
in
the
annual
Southern
passage
of
this
dark
throng
only
learn
what
a
surpassing
substitute
they
would
prove--on
toast--for
the
bobolinks
which
as
"reed-birds"
are
sacrificed
by
the
thousands
to
the
delectable
satisfaction
of
those
"fine-mouthed
and
daintie
wantons
who
set
such
store
by
their
tooth"!
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