Our Old-Garden Birds. 



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bird dare venture. When looking for insects in the 

 wrinkles of the bark of an old oak, it can be seen 

 with difficulty, and at such times looks something like 

 a litde mouse until it spreads its wings and twitters 

 more gayly than ever a mouse could squeak. There 

 are two species of kinglets, the golden- and the ruby- 

 crowned, readily distinguished by the differences 

 indicated in the names. The golden-crowned is a 



Golden-crowned Kinglet. 



winter resident ; the ruby-crowned merely a passing 

 visitor, though now and then a representative remains 

 with us, and during the mild winter of 1888-89 they 

 were quite abundant. Mr. Cram says that the ruby- 

 crowned bird ''has a song like a canary, only not 

 so loud." The golden-crowned can sing well on 

 occasion. I have heard them in June, in Northern 

 Pennsylvania, make the dark rhododendron-shaded 

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