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whom we all follow and admire — have 

 fallen into mistakes over them. 



And yet they are not hard to get on 

 speaking terms with, and prove delight- 

 ful little bodies when once they become 

 famihar to the eye and ear. 



There are twelve or more, all told, 

 who honor us with their presence — though 

 some of these are so retiring and exclu- 

 sive (and, beside this, so rarely, if ever, 

 make their domicile here) that it will take 

 a long while, and you may lose patience at 

 times, before you are acquainted with them. 



Those you ought to know, however, 

 and may know easily, are the Chipping 

 Sparrow (with his mahogany-brown cap 

 and no melody in his note); the Song 

 Sparrow (who often stays with us all 

 winter and furnishes our first spring music) ; 

 the Vesper Sparrow, or Grassfinch (with 

 his white tail feathers which always show 

 as he flies away from you); the Yellow- 

 winged Sparrow (smallest of the group, 

 whose voice is so like that of a grass- 

 hopper he has taken his name too, and 



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