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THE BIRDS ABOUT Us. 



"a lively, agreeable song, fine and clear, and frequently heard 

 from a score or more of birds at once, with a most pleasing effect. 

 While his mate is sitting, the male sings almost constantly through 

 out the day, and sometimes even late into the evening." 



The more abundant and better known Peabody- 

 bird, or White-throated Sparrow, scarcely calls for 

 special notice. Everybody seems to know 

 it, and to know all about it. In summer 

 it is a New England bird, and in autumn 

 it comes by the hundreds into the 

 Middle States and southward. A 

 great many stay all winter in 

 Southern New Jersey, and there 

 are few thickets of greenbrier 

 in sheltered places on the 

 east shore of the Delaware 

 River but harbor some of 

 these birds. They are 

 always perched on com- 

 fortable twigs, and when 

 out on half a dozen in a 

 commences. 



active Tree-sparrow that 

 comes down from the far north, and is so abundant 

 in Pennsylvania and New Jersey from November 

 until April. They are as active as the white-throats 

 are lazy, and keep up a merry twitter while seed- 

 hunting. They are always in large, loose flocks, and 

 when you startle one he will give a shrill alarm-cry, 

 and a hundred that you did not see will start up out 

 of the dead grass and weeds, and every one will sing 

 after its fashion. This bird has ever been a favorite 



the sun does shine 

 row their whistling 

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