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fellows, who live mostly in the tops of trees. 
Then the orioles and the thrushes and the cuckoos, 
and most birds who live on insects. 
By the time that November comes in, few of 
them will be left. Birds who can live on seeds 
and winter berries. such as cedar-berries and 
partridge-berries, and others, often stay with us, 
— bluebirds, finches, and sometimes robins. 
Many birds take their journey by night. 
Think of it! Tiny creatures, that all summer 
go to bed at dark, start off some night, when it 
seems as if they ought to be asleep, and fly all 
night in the dark. 
When it grows light, they stop in some place 
where they can feed and rest. And the next 
night, or two or three nights later, they go on 
again. So they do till they reach their winter 
home, hundreds or thousands of miles away. 
These night flyers are the timid birds, and 
those who live in the woods, and do not like to 
be seen, — thrushes, wrens, vireos, and others. 
Birds with strong wings, who are used to fly- 
ing hours every day, and bolder birds, who do 
‘not mind being seen, take their journey by day- 
heht. 
Most of them stop now and then, a day or 
two at a time, to feed and rest. They fly very 
high, and faster than our railroad trains can go. 
