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and forget to be hermits. They appear about the 

 last of May, and make the woods ring with their 

 musical note, even before the lakes and streams 

 have thawed. 



On their arrival in Alaska, they find berries for 

 food just thawing out of the snow-drifts, cranber- 

 ries and blueberries. They have a gay time after 

 they arrive, before it is quite time to begin nest- 

 ing. They frolic in the woods, and chase one 

 another, and squeal, and have many a beak-to- 

 beak fight, though no one seems to be very much 

 hurt. 



A pair of varied thrushes are said to return to 

 the same spot year after year in the cold north, 

 making a new nest each season, on top of the last 

 year's nest. 



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