TWELVE WIN TEE BIRDS. 



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All the members of the family Paridce delight to 

 wander in company and time and again have I found 

 all five of them within an area of a few square rods. 

 On the beech tree above mentioned, there were, how- 

 ever, but the two of which I have written, "the lordly 

 tomtit, with his jaunty crest ; the merry chickadee 

 the former making the woods ring with his earnest, 



Fig. 87 Bluebird. (After Deal.) 



invitation to ramble therein: here here here! the 

 latter ever winsome as it chirped, in more subdued 

 tones, chick- a- dee -dee dee-dee; winter no terror has for 

 me -for me" 



On the same afternoon the notes of many other 

 birds were heard ; notably the ringing quaver of the 

 bluebird again and again the first symbol of the 

 approaching springtime which all plants, all animals 



