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joy until the abominable English sparrows drive it away. It 
comes with the robin, to help chase winter away; and, though 
we have heard it a hundred times, it is always welcome news, 
late in February or early in March, to hear some one say 
RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET. 
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triumphantly, “I saw a Bluebird to-day It is as needless 
to describe this feathered beauty, with the brown breast, and 
back of heaven’s bluest sky-tint, as it would be to describe a 
rainbow. 
Unfortunately, the Bluebirds are not good fighters, and 
the English sparrows harry them shamefully. They are 
