June 27—How do birds react to rain? that is a question which may well be asked in weather such as this: it must cause some consternation in the avian mind to wake up one morning and find a lake where yesterday was a nice green lawn full of juicy worms only too anxious to wriggle out and prove the old adage that it is the early worm that gets the bird. Yet, promptly at break ut day, Blackbird begins to sing, Sparrows "rp in chorus, and Oriole pipes his little lay.u spite of floods and steadily pouring rain. But food must be obtained... somewhere, somehow not only for self and partner but for four or five new arrivals (who, even Mother must admit, are hardly handsome—for they mainly resemble a large funnel leading through a pipe, which is a neck, into a tank, which is a stomach). So parent birds, and' more pi ticularly males, must go hustling out to drier
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