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abound in my lawns and on the old walls that 

 keep up the river frontage, and that these 

 birds pay us occasional visits for feeding pur- 

 poses. I am the more inclined to this view 

 of the case as it appeared to me, when I first 

 saw them, that the tomtits were resenting 

 their intrusion as strangers, which accounted 

 for the twit-tit-tit-titting that I heard. 



