Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1929, Page 110

D. C, MAY 26, 1929.—PART 7. M—eeting Pl TIHIE SUNDAY STAR, \VASHING'I:_QN’ — ace of the Crossword Puzzlers Acress. . Creep. . Pack. . Unadorned. . Form. . Indian princess. . Fatigue. . Century plant. . Shy. g . Mingled with. . Purpose. . Ancient Roman magistrate, . Among. . Departed. . Favorite. . Smoking appa- ratus. . Child. . Detaching by pulling. . Sounds loud and ~Llear, . Annoys. . Girl's name. . Attics. . A fish. . Hurl, . Play on words. . Hawaiian birds. . A Philistine na- tional god. . Narrow way. . Semicylindrical moldings. . Slender shaft with pointed head. . Babylonian god of agriculture. . Territorial divi- sion between Nor- way and Sweden. . Property holder by lease. . One who fondles. . Insect egg. . Gazed. . Three-legged stands. . Erase. Crucifix. Scold. . Prevaricator. . Goddess of the oon. .76.(%33 dishes. 80. Pertaining to a suborder of pas- cerine birds. . Eucharistic wine vessel. - . Reply. Girl’s name. . To averawe. . The devil; coll. . Melodious utter- nces. g . Sharp sound. . Disappear grad- uall;". : . Iron compound. . By. . A substantive . Edible tuber. . Edge. . Membranous uch, .g)entist's degree. . Three: prefix. . Nebraskan Indian, . Exclamation. ;16. Ribbed fabric. Z7. Denoting the final purpose. . Move with a lever. . Andean beast of burden. . Sign. . Honey-making in- sect. 5. Smart. 98. 99. ending. City in France. Anglo-Saxon native-bred pony. . To extract by ~aporization and condensation. Beverage. Reduces 0 a lower class. Intended. Scotch plain fabrics. . Highest note in Guido’s scale. Cure. . Part of a circle. . Swampy ground. .- Wood-boring tool. . Sacred scripture. Eased the mind of. Rapidly. . Lady person. . Ruin. . Trick. . Railroad car. . Very small. . Averege. . Océans, . Wish anxiously. Posaum @ N~ Down. . Restrain. . Shrubby Chinese perennial. . Positive terminal in a circuit. . Protuberan-a . Gaiter. . Be painful. Prong. . Worthlessleaving. Capuchin monkey. . Fight. . Oriental name. . Noose. . A colored twilled cotton goods. . Hardened. . Concealed. . Wrong. . Steer. . Beautiful, peace- ful places. . Approach. . Linguistic tribe of South America. . Parson-bird of New Zealand. . A string. . Cater. Put away for safekeeping. . Ardor. . Visitor. . Classifies. . Appendage. . Disabled. Twine together. . Distal segment of hind limb of a natural groups rather than in- . Female sheep. . Soak 105. O O -. River in Switz- 113. dividual. . Death notice. . Observe. . Flushes. . Fisherman. . Climaxes. : Reslm;us sub- stance. . Without; French. . Discharge. . Possessed. . Headache. . Frozen water. . Game of chance. . Worry. . Foamy. 98. 100. Even now. Small mound. erland. 106. Something owed. 107. Strike out. 108. Girl’s name. 109. Ecclesiastical name for Salis- 114. 117. 119. 122. Man’s nickname, vertebrate. 49. Drunkard. 51. Characteristic of . Writer of poetry. . Near, . Rested. . Lading of a ship. . Point of the com- pass. . Small salamanders. . Historic American battleship. . A weight of India. . Affirmative, . Scotch poet. . Greek letter., . Also. . Voiceless conso- nant. . Portion. . Matrimony. . Girl's name. ported the heavens. . Father, . Exclamation. . Induct. . Dowry. . Sailor. . Small wax candles. . Over: poet. . Enraptured. 57. Deputy. 58, Black bird. 59, Transparent liquid. 60. Unit of weight. 61. Auricular organ. 63, Watering place. 65. Apodal fish. 66. Terminal. 10. 11. 12, 22. 24. 25. . Uproar. . Growl . Swelling. Institution of learning. Pishing ¢xpedition on shares: Scot. District. More thinly scat- Mother of Apollo. Wager. Horny thickenings of the skin. . Existed. These come from 25 down, Pen. Combs wool, . Small, soft mass. . Pertaining to a wall. . Woo. . Those who hope for a rising mar- ket, . Middle. . Stir up. . Nine-sided figure. . Began. . Caress. . Tongue of a bell, . Of the earth. . Egyptian sun disc. . June bug. . Squander, . Believer in the ex- istence of a per- sonal God. . Domesticated.” . Along. . Railroad. . Inlet of the s:a. . Stripling. . Cooled lava: Hawaiian. . River in Italy, 102. 103. 104. Period of time. Sailors; coll. Brings upon 111, 112, harshly. bury, England. Helps along. A river of 124. 125. 127. Girl’s name. Feels remorse. Pastry, Male Bird Hatches the Fggs Continued from Nineteenth Paog. this rare species Dr. Dixon tells in his own words in his report to the Cooper Ornithological Club of cultornh.l . 1 “When first frightened off the nest by Mr. Wright the previous afternoon, the bird which we later thought might have been the female, after ‘exploding’ ran away with 'ha' halt spread and the tail spread out tm-nke_ and dragging on the ground. Now and then this bird would nestle down as though covering & nest. ! “When about 100 yards distant from the nest the bird began to wander about, pretending to feed. It exhibited no concern whatever when Mr. Wright returned to the nest and exam- ined the eggs. It made no attempt to return to the nest even after the observer had retired to a distance and waited for a period of 10 minutes, during which interval rain began to fall. [ 4 “IN marked contrast with this rather indif- . ferent attitude, a second bird, which was watched on the nest for 16 hours, behaved in an entirely different manner. This bird, when forced off the nest, would fly directly up into the intruder’s face, and then run off to one side, a distance of 8 or 10 feet, where it would perch on a rock, fluff out its feathers like a ‘setting” hen and utter a low plaintive call. “The call would often be repeated two or three times after a slight pause of half a minute between calls. When we started after this bird it would lead us adroitly away from the nest, but if we stood still it would hustle directly back, even when we were standing only 10 feet distant. “In going on to the nest the bird was very careful not to step directly upon the eggs. It would trot up to within a foot or so of the eggs and then streak cautiously down to the edge of the nest. Here it would stop, inspect the eggs and reach out with its bill and turn the eggs around, keeping them little ends down. “Foilowing this inspection the bird fluffed out the feathers on its breast and, sitting down gently on the edge of the nest, slid its body forward with great care until the eggs were completely covered. - < “When frightened off the nest, this surf bird sometimes picked up small grass seeds and in- sects from bare places in the rocks, but during the 16 hours that we watched it never once left the nest voluntarily, and it always re- turned to the eggs within three or four min- utes. “The bird seemed to realize that the .eggs would chill fatally if left uncovered for any length of time, and doubtless they wouwld have done so0, for my fingers after awhile became so; Stiff and cold that I was unable to work the cameras, “Only the one surf bird put in an appear- ance at or near this nest during our entire stay of a day and a half. This bird, which was incubating, was at first presumed to be the female because of its evident anxiety for and care of the eggs. The bird was under close and constant observation from early morning until noon, when it was collected just as it left the nest. Imagine our surprise upon preparing the specimen to find that it was not a female at all but the male.” The scientists were unable to find any clew by which to detect the different sexes in the fleld except by the “maternal” behavior of the father bird. This state of affairs was later corroborated by the examination of spac’'mens taken for scientific study. Five males, but none of the females, all had bare incubation patches or €gg pockets worn in the feathers of the breast, indicating in- dubitably they were the ones who stayed home to care for the young ones while their modern mother gallivanted around amusing herself. “Since we found breeding males feeding to- gether in small companies of three and four, away frcm their nests, it is still possible that the female remains on the nest while the male is off feeding and vice versa,” explained Dr. Dixon. ' TWO other birds first reported in 1789, like the model husband, have had their nesting sites rounded up within the last five or six years. These likewis> are shore birds cf the West Coast. The marbled murrelet was just run to ‘cover in 1926 by a Canadian naturalist, 8. J.' Darcus, in the almost inaccessible cliff faces of the Queen Charlotte Islands, just off Vancouver. He found that these birds make burrows six feet or more into the surface of the cliffs, while the particular colony from which he secured specimen eggs was 200 feet above the sea. (Copyright, 1929.)