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whicli thoy evidently distinguisli from familiar 

 pieces of furniture and regard with alarm. 



This, too, is the Itest time to secure pictures of 

 J uncos,-* Ghickadt^es, Nuthatches, Downy Woodpeck- 

 ers, Blue Jays, and less common winter birds. The 

 four last named are rarely or never seen about my 

 home in winter. Doubtless the abundant and sur- 

 rounding woodlands afford them a more congenial 

 haunt, from which they are not to be enticed by suet, 

 bones, or grain ; or, more likely still, the custom of 

 putting out food for birds is so unusual in the region 

 about New York city that they have not yet learned 

 to expect it. It is a most pleasing surjirise to the 









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resident of this section to oliserve the numbers a,nd 

 familiarity of winter birds in the environs of Boston, 

 where a feast seems spread for them in nearly every 

 dooryard. 



