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live on the ground, dive into a snow-bank, and 
snuggle down quietly, while the snow falls and 
covers them all over, and keeps the cold wind off. 
Air comes through the snow, so they do not 
smother. 
Some birds creep into a pile of brush that is 
covered with snow, and find under the twigs 
little places like tents, where the snow has been 
kept out by the twigs, and they sleep there, 
away from the wind and storm outside. 
Water birds find the best sleeping-places on 
the water, where they float all night hke tiny 
boats. Some of them leave one foot hanging 
down and paddling a little, while they sleep, to 
keep from being washed to the shore. 
Bob-white and his family sleep in a close 
circle on the ground, all with their heads turned 
outward, so that they can see or hear an enemy, 
whichever way he comes. | 
Hawks and eagles are said to sleep standing, 
never sitting on the feet like a canary. Some 
ducks and geese do even more: they sleep stand- 
ing on one foot. Woodpeckers and chimney 
swifts hang themselves up by their claws, using 
their stiff tail for a brace, as if it were a third 
leg. 
Some birds, like the crows, sleep in great 
flocks. They agree upon a piece of woods, and 
