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Show irmoMT r vuthm wnfiu tf'iw BIROS TALK "So we can bear of some of the other birds in the world besides those we see I'm going to tell you of still another Bird Talk they had in the coo when they told each other who they were and some of their family ways. "I think," Daddy continued, "that It Is nice to bear of different birds around different parts 'of the world just as it Is nice to know of different people and of foreign lands and of Interesting In-teresting places. "So I will tell you of some more of the birds' own stories about themselves. them-selves. "' said the Grass Finch, 'come from Australia. There I am a very popular cage bird. I am very, very small and dainty. I " 'We do not mind if we have very I small quarters, and we do not mind If the little blrdllngs share the smallest of quarters with us. "'I mean by quarters the same as any one would mean fey speaking of their home. I do not mean money, of course you understand! "Well, I have a gray head and I have a black throat and a black talL The rest of my feathers are a mixture mix-ture of tan and red and a dull yellow yel-low "'My name,' said another bird, 'U the Black-Cheeked Love Bird, and I ' A Vary Popular Cage Bird. coma from East Africa. I have soft black feathered cheeks. " 'We welcome , the little birds to the too. None of us,ars very strong, but we keep pretty well. "'We have green feathers and red throats and tan heads and our beaks . are like the beaks of paroquets, only very small. "I am the Brush-Bronis-Wlng Pigeon Pi-geon from Eastern Australia," said the next speaker at the meeting. "'I come from Eastern Australia, as I've said, but you're hearing so many stories that I thought I would repeat that twice so that you are doubly sure of remembering It "'I like low, swampy underbrush kind of country, and I can fly Quickly. " 'But I seldom do fly. I have gray-brown gray-brown wings with touches of green and orange. My breast la gray and slate blue In color, and I am supposed to be very pretty. I hope yon all think so, too.' "And the birds all agreed that they did. " 'I am the Java Sparrow,' said the next one. "I am not very unusual. "'I have white cheeks and a black head and a little of my throat Is black, too. "My beak Is pink and my body Is of gray slate color, and folks say I'm nice looking. " The little blrdllngs are bom here In the soo, too, for they think we have such a big, , big home here.' " Tve the same name,' said another bird, 'but I am a special Japanese bird. My beak Is pink, too. I think pink Is such a cheerful color.' " 'Dear me, dear me,' said the Jackson Jack-son Whydah bird, 1 was afraid that there would not be time for me to tell my story. "1 come from British East Africa. I am black and I am very fat and puffed out and good-natured looking. "I chirp, chirp, chirp steadily, for I'm fond of chattering. "'I have brownish touches on my wings, and my tall is long and feathery feath-ery as a nice tall should be, and Is curved beautifully. "It hangs down very far. I'm as proud of the way my tall hahgs down as some girls are of the length of their hair. "Tve heard them boasting here la the soo. One said she could sit on her hair, and her friend almost turned a backward somersault to prove that her hair was long, toot "Thst was a great Joke! Well, I believe the meeting Is over, but even so, I shall chirp, chirp, chirp." "And the Jackson Whydah chirped, chirped, chirped," ended Daddy. |
