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that their winter's supply of food is obtained the 

 same as the \\^oodpecker's. In fact, when they 

 reach this section they seem to be feasting most 

 of the time. What their song is I do not know. 

 Their call note, which they use during the vaca- 

 tion season, has very little that is musical in it. 

 It is hardly more than the softest note of the com- 

 mon cricket. The kinglets are usually in com- 

 pany with the warblers and are like them in their 

 habits. I am told they sometimes nest in North- 

 ern New York, but never have seen them in the 

 breeding season. Occasionally they linger in 

 this section through the winter, but as a rule they 

 journey southward to the vicinity of the Gulf. 

 The stirring way in which they do things insures 

 their welcome almost anywhere. Talkers and 

 doers with all their might is a bird introduction 

 that savors of our feathered friends at their best. 



Some of the smaller animals seem to have no 

 other place that they enjoy quite so well as the 

 habitations of men. Conspicuous among these 

 fellows is the brown rat. I am told that he does 

 a great and good work as a scavenger, and very 

 likely he does, but his careless way of doing it 

 seems to entail upon somebody else an endless 



