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STRAY FEATHERS
FROM A BIRD MAN'S DESK
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STRAY
FEATHERS
FROM
A BIRD MAN'S
DESK
By Austin L. Rand
CURATOR OF BIRDS,
CHICAGO NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
WITH CARTOONS BY RUTH JOHNSON
DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC., GARDEN CITY, N.Y., 1955
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 55-5254
Copyright, 1955, by Austin L. Rand ©
All Rights Reserved
Printed in the United States
At the Country Life Press, Garden City, N.Y.
First Edition
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CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Introduction | 9 |
| Birds Using Tools | 15 |
| Birds as Brigands | 19 |
| Birds Bathing | 22 |
| How Birds Anoint Their Feathers | 25 |
| Traveling Birds' Nests | 28 |
| Maladaptation in Birds | 31 |
| Feathered Baby Sitters and Co-op Nursery Nests | 35 |
| Birds' Nests and Their Soup | 38 |
| Walled Wives of Hornbills | 42 |
| Buried Eggs and Young | 45 |
| The Snowy Owl as a Trade Index | 48 |
| Monkey Birds | 51 |
| Bird-Made Incubators | 54 |
| Cormorant Fishing | 57 |
| The Shrike's Larder | 60 |