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Show BIRDS HIRE NURSE TO CARE FOR YOUNG CHICAGO. OcL 26. Family of the chimney swift Is strictly modern, both parent birds dividing duties In their chimney home, according to Miss Al-thea Al-thea R Shearman of National, Iowa. 1 who addressed today's sessions of the American Orlnothologists' union Sho declared that the wife shared In tho economic sustaining of the family, while the husband bharcd the domestic domes-tic duties, sitting beside her on. the nest to hatch the eggs. In describing her observations. Miss Sherman said that "tho chimney swift j and his mate were very' careful with I their home and used the same nest for five years. Ono year they raised such a large family that they "hired a nurse maid to help feed the blrdd and spend the nights in tho nest." Other speakers told of the lives of various birds, George Flnlay Simmons of Austin, Texas, describing tho "apartment house" squabble between the nuthatch," tho chlckadeo and the bluebird. In which tho bluebird seemed seem-ed to triumph as ho was tho largest of tho three. torks migrate many hundreds of miles a season, according to T. G. 111 IM ! ! m I Ahrens of Berlin. "In one season," I he said, 'they visit Egypt, go up the! Nile, visit tho Orange Free Btate, th Transvaal and Cape Colony. The gull also travels great distances," I Tho fellowship of the orlhinolugists' union I3 limited to 50 00 |