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off for another feeding ground. They are 

 seed eaters and they save the farmer more 

 weed pulHng than he imagines. 



Later on in the winter, when it is 

 colder, you will see other white birds in 

 flocks. These are snow buntings, who 

 have brought their greeting over thou- 

 sands of miles of frozen ice and glittering 

 snow, almost from the pole itself. You 

 marvel, as the white forms flash by, how 

 they could have come so far, for they are 

 really as much a part of the polar fauna 

 as the blue fox and the musk ox. 



Another more gaily dressed visitor from 

 the frozen north who is occasionally seen 

 during extremely cold winters is the pine 

 grosbeak. He is a beautiful carmine and 

 black fellow, about the size of the robin, 

 but he only visits us during an extreme 

 winter. A great many times when people 

 say they have seen robins in midwinter. 



