“The Cowbird, now almost twice as large as his devoted foster-parents, rises with hideous chitterings of delight to receive an ever-acceptable meal. I visited the nest at 7.30 A. M., on July 26. As I walked home to breakfast, I resolved that in the interests of justice I ought to put an end to that Cowbird, as a murderer and a menace to the welfare of birddom. But when I returned to the spot, about 9 A. M., he had escaped me; the nest was empty, my bird flown. No doubt, if I had searched and listened, I should have heard him shouting for food not far away; but my spirit of vengeance was only half-hearted at best, and so I left him, a criminal abroad, to be the parent, I suppose, of others as bad.”
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON, Secretary
Address all correspondence, and send all remittances for dues and contributions, to
the National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York City.
William Dutcher, President
- Theodore S. Palmer, First Vice President
- Frederic A. Lucas, Acting President
- T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary
- Jonathan Dwight, Jr., Treasurer
Samuel T. Carter, Jr., Attorney