How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and other wood-cuts/The Cow-bird; The Cowslip

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How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and other wood-cuts (1917)
by Robert Williams Wood

The Cow-bird; The Cowslip

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4358836How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers and other wood-cuts — The Cow-bird; The Cowslip1917Robert Williams Wood

Although the Cow'slips on this plant,
Suggest perhaps a ru-min-ant,
One never sees the opening bud,
Devour the grass or chew its cud.
The Cowbird picture, I suspect,
Is absolutely incorrect;
We make such errors now and then,
A sort of cow slip of the pen.