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ditions in the great Arctic Circle nursery. Thus 

 most birds met with in the heights during the 

 summer season are the migratory ones. Among 

 the summer residents are the American pipit, 

 the white-crowned sparrow, and the gray- 

 headed junco, the latter occasionally raising two 

 broods in a summer. Here, too, in autumn come 

 flocks of robins and other birds for late berries 

 before starting southward. 



The golden eagle may soar above the peaks 

 during all the seasons, but he can hardly be 

 classed as a resident, for much of the winter he 

 spends in the lower slopes of the mountains. 

 Early in the spring he appears in the high places 

 and nests among the crags, occasionally twelve 

 thousand feet above sea-level. The young 

 eaglets are fed in part upon spring lamb from 

 the near-by wild flocks. 



One day, while in a bleak upland above the 

 timber-line, I paused by a berg-filled lake, a 

 miniature Arctic Ocean, with barren rock- 

 bound shores. A partly snow-piled, half-frozen 

 moor stretched away into an arctic distance. 

 Everything was silent. Near by a flock of ptar- 



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