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Questions from the original Key to the Nature Library to send you back into Bird Homes — and out of doors.

  1. What peculiarity of plumage development has the yellow billed cuckoo?
  2. How does Mr. Dugmore justify keeping birds in captivity?
  3. How does a bluebird eat a grasshopper?
  4. What extreme cleverness does the blackbird show?
  5. Why does the marsh wren build several nests, using but one?
  6. What advantage is the pointed end of eggs laid on rocks, etc.?
  7. What excuse is suggested for the cuckoo's parasitic egg-laying?
  8. What are the approximate dates when birds begin to nest near New York?
  9. What are the best methods in use by photographers of young birds?
  10. What facts should be recorded by the bird student?
  11. What is the author's advice on collecting birds' eggs?
  12. What is the most likely place for a screech owl to build its nest?
  13. What materials are used in the Baltimore oriole's nest?
  14. How are the young ones defended against smothering?
  15. Where and how is the nest of the oven-bird built?
  16. What bird builds by preference at the foot of a white oak tree?
  17. What birds take possession of deserted crows' nests?
  18. What birds nest in colonies?
  19. What birds dig holes in the ground and lay their eggs at the bottom?
  20. How old are young robins when they leave the nest?
  21. What bird is most destructive to chickens?
  22. How many broods do red-winged blackbirds rear in a season?