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Oxford ' : Autumn and Winter. 



in whose seeds they find a winter subsistence. 



Whether they come 

 every winter I am un- 

 able to say, and am 

 inclined to doubt it ; 

 but in 1884, any one 

 who went the round 

 of the Parks, keeping 

 an eye on the birches, 

 could hardly fail to see 

 them, and they have 

 been reported not only 

 as taking refuge here 

 in the winter, but even 



These tiny linnets at work in the delicate birch-boughs. p. 23. 



