WHAT BIRDS CARRY IN THEIR POCKETS. 23 
female, wear bonnets or hoods, which we think are tied 
closely under the chin. Others, like the woodpeckers, 
wear collars of lace. This lace is made of loose, filmy 
feathers, as different from the feathers of the breast or 
back as embroidery is different from closely woven cloth. 
RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET. 
When a warm day comes, you will see the birds lift 
their wings and hold their feathers close, and pant 
with their bills open. How tired they look, and the 
song or twitter which you hear is a weary one, as if 
they were saying, “The oldest inhabitant never saw so 
warm a day.” Ina cold snap the dress fluffs out, and 
the bird looks much larger than he did on the warm 
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