The Inspiring Sparrows. 



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Long years of constant association with a taxidermist, 

 who was supphed with birds from the " pine regions," 

 brought to him by the charcoal-burners, gave me 

 opportunities far superior to field work to see what 



Snow-bunting and Lapland Long-spur. 



birds were about in winter ; and it is a curious fact 

 that this taxidermist received birds in the flesh from 

 near the coast that were not, that same winter, ob- 

 served by any one in the immediate valley of the 

 Delaware, and snow-buntings, several long-spurs, 

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