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rose bush, which grew by the side of our house. I supposed that it was an 

 English Sparrow, as a flock of them are often found, throughout the day, in 

 two large evergreen trees near by, but on looking closer, I found that it was 

 a little olive-green bird. It was settling down on the rose bush, putting it's 

 head under a wing to go to sleep. At first I did not recognize it as a Gold- 

 finch, it looked so small, and also the Goldfinches are not very commonly 

 found here during the winter months. 



By E. R. Forrest. 



Gila Woodpecker. 



I told one of my sisters of it and she went out and easily caught it. The 

 poor thing was so cold and tired it did not mind being handled very much, 

 and made but little effort to get away from her. She brought it in the house 

 and we put it in an old bird-cage, covering the cage with some shawls. It 

 went right to sleep and slept until morning. 



Had she not brought it in teh house that night it surely would have 

 been frozen, for the next morning the thermometer had gone down to eight 

 degrees below zero. 



At day-break, when we went to look at it, it was awake, anxiously trying 



