36 OUR WINTER BIRDS. 



pair will eat 500,000 caterpillars in a year. The brown-cap a[)- 

 pears to keep more to the deep Avoods. The golden-crowned 

 kinglet (Regulus Satrapa) is another of our winter birds, and is 

 often found in company with the chickadees. 



This list of our winter birds is by no means exhaustive, but 

 may be interesting to some of our amateur ornithologists. Much 

 more might have been said in regard to their habits, etc., but it 

 would have made the article too lengthy for this bulletin. 





