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in sticks for a stove. A cord of wood is four feet wide, four 

 feet high and eight feet long. 



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Chickadees: the little black-capped, gray birds that live all 

 winter with us and are known to every child who goes into the 

 woods. They never come into city parks to stay. They are 

 wood-birds. 



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Red-headed woodpeckers: relatives of the flicker, a little 

 smaller; strikingly colored black and white and red. When 

 on a tree the bird's red head, throat, neck and upper breast is 

 its field mark ; when on the wing the white of the wings is the 

 mark. 



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Three-Arch Bocks: a wild bird reservation just off the 

 coast of Oregon. See the author's account of it in the Atlantic 

 Monthly for March, 1912. 



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Murres (pronounced nrnrz) : they look like so many pen- 

 guins about the size of ducks crowding upon the rocks. 



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Cormorants, and puffins, and guillemots, and "stormy" petrels 

 and gulls-: all of these are sea birds; and are dwellers upon 

 the Rocks. All of these birds, or their very near relatives, 

 occur also on the Atlantic Coast, though here we have no 

 northern coast reservation for them corresponding to Three- 

 Arch Rocks. The petrel of these rocks is Reading's. 



CHAPTER VI 



WILD LIFE IN THE FARM-YARD 



The especial object of this chapter and Chapter III is to 

 show you how many wild animal and bird traits, habits, etc., 

 you can readily see by watching the domestic animals the hen 



