TO-DAY’S NATURE NOTE
How the Hawk Hatches Eggs Q The youna of a hawk require so much fresh meat to, satisfy (heir appetites that tlie mother bird finds it quite impossible to feed more than one at a time. Nature has Ilierel'oi-e arranged tliis wonderful .method for her. She lays one egg anil batches it out. Then she lays her wond egg. and while she is away hunting for tile rat. mouse or chicken on which she feeds the young bird, the second egg is hatciieil out by the first bird. This is why the nest of a hawk always has perhaps a half-grown ehiek and one newly hatched, and sometimes still another egg. —A.M.S.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 82, 31 December 1934, Page 6
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115TO-DAY’S NATURE NOTE Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 82, 31 December 1934, Page 6
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