APPENDIX. Jit 
ing up and down tree trunks, from which they get their liv- 
ing and in which they nest. Bill long, slender and curved. 
Tails stiff and bristly for bracing them as they work —like 
the woodpeckers’. 
NUTHATCHES AND TITS. 
Small tree birds usually found together in flocks except 
when breeding. 
Nuthatches. — Slate-blue-backed birds that walk sedately 
up and down tree trunks, and run along branches upside 
down, like flies. 
Chickadees. — Fluffy grayish birds that flit among tree 
tops. 
KINGLETS. 
Small fluffy greenish birds that flit about the leaves of 
shrubbery and trees after insects. Songs remarkable. 
THRUSHES 
Brown-backed, white-breasted birds, size of robin, or 
smaller. Bills, long and slender, fitted for worm diet. 
Habits, phlegmatic ; pensive birds, fond of sitting motion- 
less. Finest of American songsters. 
ARBITRARY CLASSIFICATIONS OF BIRDS DE- 
SCRIBED. 
I. Brrps FOUND IN CERTAIN LOCALITIES. 
1. About or near houses. — Robin, chipping sparrow, song 
sparrow, junco, chimney swift, crow blackbird, warbling vi- 
reo, yellow-bellied woodpecker, tree sparrow, brown creeper, 
oriole, pheebe, purple finch, chickadee, catbird, red-eyed vi- 
reo, nuthatch, humming-bird, barn swallow. 
2. In gardens and orchards. — Catbird, bluebird, wax- 
wing, cuckoo, oriole, kingbird, kinglets, humming-bird, 
warbling vireo, yellow-throated vireo, yellow-bellied wood- 
