WHITE-BELLIED NTJTHATCH. 



SITTA CABOLINENSIS. 



THIS is the bird that stays with us, clings to his 

 native woods ; summer and winter he is at home. 

 During one long, very cold winter a member of this 

 family was one of my most intimate, constant, and im- 

 portant friends. No degree of cold could daunt him. 

 Early in the morning his sharp, rapid, merry notes would 

 lend life to the grove: — 



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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, 



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Wait, wait, wait. Ick • y, ick • y, Ick 



