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to follow the gentle sound of their peckings, and they are 

 soon apparent, perching in some low sapling. Their parents 

 fly busily about them, and utter sharp warnings to them to 



Swung like a cradle 

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be quiet, when the cracking of a twig tells of an intruder. 

 All birds have special warning notes for their young. The 



