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WREXS. 



more often heard during cloudy weather or 

 by night. 



593. BROWN CREEPER. 

 Small, 5.50; slender with long, strongly 

 curved bill, long wings and tail which has 



While-breasted Nuthatch, 



pointed feather tips; brown above, streaked 

 with white; white beneath; rump, rusty, 

 fig. 407. Breeds in eastern N. A. from 

 Mass. north into British Provinces, south 

 along mountains to N. C; winters from N. 

 E. to FLa.; south in Oct., north in April. 



