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ing up and down tree trunks, from which they get their liv- 

 ing and in which they nest. Bill long, slender and curved. 

 Tails stiff and bristly for bracing them as they work like 

 the woodpeckers'. 



NUTHATCHES AND TITS. 



Small tree birds usually found together in flocks except 

 when breeding. 



Nuthatches. Slate-blue-backed birds that walk sedately 

 up and down tree trunks, and run along branches upside 

 down, like flies. 



Chickadees. Fluffy grayish birds that flit among tree 

 tops 



KINGLETS. 



Small fluffy greenish birds that flit about the leaves of 

 shrubbery and trees after insects. Songs remarkable. 



THRUSHES 



Brown-backed, white-breasted birds, size of robin, or 

 smaller. Bills, long and slender, fitted for worm diet. 

 Habits, phlegmatic ; pensive birds, fond of sitting motion- 

 less. Finest of American songsters. 



ARBITRARY CLASSIFICATIONS OF BIRDS DE- 

 SCRIBED. 



I. BIRDS FOUND IN CERTAIN LOCALITIES. 



1. About or near houses. Robin, chipping sparrow, song 

 sparrow, junco, chimney swift, crow blackbird, warbling vi- 

 reo, yellow-bellied woodpecker, tree sparrow, brown creeper, 

 oriole, phoebe, purple finch, chickadee, catbird, red-eyed vi- 

 reo, nuthatch, humming-bird, barn swallow. 



2. In gardens and orchards. Catbird, bluebird, wax- 

 wing, cuckoo, oriole, kingbird, kinglets, humming-bird, 

 warbling vireo, yellow-throated vireo, yellow-bellied wood- 



