The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-02
turned 1t over and pitched all the sVHN
cakes into n hoy of soft cement

turned 1t over and pitched all '"'
cakes into Il boz of soft cement AK
The foreigner doesn't take kindly 70 ~, u.
ways OF the American buejty. As
been said bluejays are thick III , w
burbs OF Highland Park. An Els''s.t,a,r,,
living in tho place had some sov sn,rrdi.
bushes, which bore berries OF eNr ,,,o, ar
nary size and sweetness. ii'o 20 ,ta
the fruit declared that the Dlucl .Sa,r,,
his treasures, and securing .'s LEA. The
lie destroyed several of the " .s,. M
law IN Illinois protects tie piu .',o ,.hic1,
there Is a section of the salu,9 y, 80
gives the right to Kill birds whlcI' a., a.
proving on tho crops lIrtehas ", W. ~
hluejays said that the birds "ou'ul. a,,,in..
gooscberries, and there was ~ ~ LII.
started against the Enghsllii ~, -, am,
ing them. The case was declueu i,'. -,
in his favor. and while seohtis.s az" 49,, ~
lovers may hold otherwise Tue o. nn ,'a
now appears in a "precedel'e N''N
Ing q sooseberry gourmond.
AN A1.TERCAT1oN.
The blueiay is perhaps the oi thour i,e if
danger is threatened he can t,ia..i ma!
graveyard silence. / was wattchins ~ ~ pd &,
OF blue1ays who were -, 3uiia t,n6 hirds Jeff
the home site and disappeared BEHIND Ina =, 2
close board fence. III a molhtlit ~, I'm in,i.s
q racket. Every note known , 10 tnd 81 e
fence. The noise Continued for several
minutes and then. going 10 y poimt ~
the left Of its source, peetea os ., an,,
pile pile in the the a llT and between. them lay
an extremely dirty paper collar, In Wat
was little question in my W I'm a Gvi XII
they were disputing over tho auFisapii-
ity of using the collar for, nesting mate.
rial They scolded back and forth for some m,
time, but Nine. jay ilnn!iy enaea Inc me
1t to the nest. where, after much dif-
fculty, one end Of II was woven into the
structure. while the other enu was ie. u
to flap with each passing breeze, li iha,,Ss
object TO every passcr.
Tho jay has pertinacity that n some m
cases might be commendaoie. Ai.er t,ie
pine tree nest was completed and TIE
oggs were laid the mother bird began SIT
ting There should have been young IN
tho nest at the end Of two weeks, put no
the Exception Of the time spent In seeking
food, for thirty days before she gave al up
hope of offspring. After they ~, had aua ae-
Each had q little dried-up kernel lnsiue
that rolled about like pea.
THERE ARE WHITE CROWS.
Albino birds arc not Of great rarity
Perhaps it were better to say mat hiras
partly albino are not rare, pure w,i ~
Animal Keeper De Nry of the Lincoln
Park Zoo, Chicago Ruthyen Deane. g
fellow of tho American CrnitlioloBists
Union, has mounted crow specimen that
is as white as the petal OF syrinsa
blossom.
There came under my personal obsser-
walton a crow which had g large whlte
patch in the center of its otherwise black
back ! saw this bird on different occasions
during two years. Save once 1t was always
alone, and at the time marking the eXcep-
| ton its company was a flock OF Its EEL
lows, who were chasing 1t TO drive It
away from the neighborhood of their
-fetrcat. i is Impossible to determine alb
| solutey what the reason for the crows
persecution was. but Of course everything
| points to the circumstances of It's white
| back as the real cause.
| The boboink (dolichonyx oryzivorus)
| has been painted part white by nature,
| but once found bobolink that was pure
| white barring two black streaKs on ills
| breast 1t has been supposed that freak
I, birds have some difficulty III procuring
| mates, but this white bobolink had q wife
and an interesting family of young. II
| may have been nothing but accident but
| the mated pair built their nest In mead
\ ow where there We're no other bobolinks
| although the fields across the road were
4 filed with their brothers and sisters. It
certainly looked like bobolink ostraclsm