WHITE-BELLIED NUTHATCH. 
SITTA CAROLINENSIS. 
HIS is the bird that stays with us, clings to his 
native woods; summer and winter he is at home. 
During one long, very cold winter a member of this 
family was one of my most intimate, constant, and im- 
portant friends. No degree of cold could daunt him. 
Early in the morning his sharp, rapid, merry notes would 
lend life to the grove: — 
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Wait, wait, wait. Ick - y, ick - y, ick - y. 
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