THINGS TO DO THIS FALL 



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for the winter, there will remain in your woods and 

 fields crows, jays, juncos, tree sparrows, chickadees, 

 kinglets, nuthatches, screech owls, barred owls, — 

 perhaps even snowy owls, — quails, partridges, gold- 

 finches, with now and then a flock of crossbills, 



snow buntings, and other northern visitors, and 

 even a flicker, robin, and bluebird left over from the 

 fall migrations. These are plenty to begin on ; and 

 yet, as they are so few, compared with the numbers 

 of the summer, the beginner's work is thus all the 

 easier in the autumn. 



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You should go out one of these frosty mornings 

 for chestnuts, if they grow in your woods; or for 

 " shagbarks," if you live in New England ; for 

 black walnuts, if you live in the Middle States ; for 

 pecan nuts, if you live in the Gulf States; for but- 



