[35] An interesting account of the family qualities of birds is given by Espinas in Des Sociétés Animales, pp. 234-292.
[36] P. C. Mitchell, Childhood of Animals, pp. 157, 158. See also about the ostrich, The Truth about Woman, p. 94.
[37] This is done to my knowledge by the male wood-pigeon, missel-thrush, blue-martin, buzzard, stone curlew, curlew, dottrel, sand-piper, common gull, black-coated gull, kittiwake, razorbill, puffin, stormy petrel, great blue heron and black vulture. There are probably good fathers among other species whose names I have missed.
[38] Pycraft, Infancy of Animals, p. 62.
[39] Pycraft, Infancy of Animals, pp. 77-78.
[40] Mitchell, Childhood of Animals, pp. 160-162. Pycraft, Infancy of Animals, pp. 63, 68, 70, 71, 75, 76.
[41] The scene was witnessed by Miss Turner. I take my account from Mr. Pycraft, who quotes from Miss Turner.
[42] Mr. Eliot Howard calls attention to this remarkable conduct in his fascinating book on the British Warblers.
[43] Mitchell, Childhood of Animals, pp. 149-150, 159.
[44] For a much fuller account of these bad fathers among birds see The Truth about Woman, pp. 90, 104-111, where explanation is attempted. See also The Position of Woman in Primitive Society (American title, The Age of Mother-Power), p. 63.