Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
top (large cage) but usually
Does not venture such long flights.
Two days ago he was in
cage with Big Bay who flew
out him in an attack - the
little fellow toppled off plumb
To the ground giving squawking
and fear scratches - not scratch
of adult - more a cry developing
in higher pitch from the shrieking
note - landed in pan of
water and held wriggling
over head - mouth often - head
fluffed out in defensive attitude.
He held this even though Big Bay
did not come down after him
and even after I picked him
up.
He seems as the whole to
recognize me - catantly as the
shriek of good. He's often
scared at other people entering
room and occasionally of me
when I just enter in the morning
the still chirping which started