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bers of worms which bore into the trees, and would 

 be extremely destructive if permitted to thrive. 



These birds breed from the northern parts of 

 the United States northward, and are therefore, 

 only migrants in the latitude where I have been 

 studying them. But they do not seem to be in a 

 hurry to reach their northern summer resort. 

 They must have tarried here fully six weeks in 

 the spring, and I had almost concluded that they 

 meant to take up their abode with us ; but one day 

 about the middle of May when T sauntered out to 

 the woods, I found that all of them had gone. 

 Really the parting was a sad one to me, but I hope 

 some other lover of the " feathered republic of the 

 groves" has found them just as companionable in 

 their breeding haunts as they have been here. 



