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BIRD-LAND ECHOES. 



remote country and appear among us at the time 

 of, or just before, the falling of the leaves and arrival 

 of the tree-sparrows and blue snow-birds. Some- 

 times I find them on the south hill-side in October, 

 when the leaves have been discolored by frost, and 

 are brown, ruddy, or brightly red, but still thick-set 



Sharp-shinned Hawk. 



as in summer, and among them many Peabody- 

 birds. It is not strange that these wandering hawks 

 should discover such places, and what a disturbance 

 is created when they dash by and carry off a victim ! 

 How the other birds struggle to reach the greenbrier 

 thickets, tumbling rather than flying, as though so 



