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were nearly twice the size of ordinary nests, being 

 also loosely composed of green moss, showing that 

 certain birds can readily adapt themselves to 

 their surrounding circumstances. 



The time to see the cock bird to the best 

 advantage, is when the grcund is covered with 



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snow; for at such times he will come into our 

 gardens, and when hard pressed by hunger he 

 will even come up to a window for the food placed 

 there for him. When the evenings grow long'er 

 he retires to the hedgerows, however, preferring 

 those fringing the woods ; and after dark he may 



