and Their Homes 
tits, its relations, and the wrens, and 
golden-crested wrens all stop with us 
the whole year round, in spite of cold 
winds, and snow and frost, and scarcity 
oretood. Indeed, | think it is quite 
worth noticing that these, the smallest 
birds we have, are real natives, living 
facia whole lives with us here in 
England, instead of forsaking us when 
the bad weather comes. 
And the bottle-tit, the wren, and the 
still smaller golden-crested wren are 
also all worthy of notice because all 
three of them make very curious and 
very beautiful nests—such beautiful nests 
that they are amongst the best made 
of any that are made here in England, 
or indeed anywhere else. And I should 
like to show them to you, but as I cant’ 
do that to you all, I must do the next 
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