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OUR SOUTHERN BIRDS 



woody flat, and grown up in lush waterweeds 

 and alder and azalea, suits very well the Swamp 

 Sparrow's idea of a winter residence. Here you 

 may see him flying just above the low thicket, 

 trilling happily as he goes; or walking securely 

 over the soft mire which your clumsier feet 



cannot approach; or even 

 tripping across the water 

 on some light pontoon of 

 chance-caught drift that 

 looks as if it would 

 scarcely bear up a fly. 



In the spring these 

 Sparrows, with the Grass- 

 hoppers and the White- 

 throats, return to their 

 northern homes. 



GOLDEN-CROWNED 

 KINGLET 



GOLDEN-CROWNED 



KINGLET 



Length 4 inches 



Tiniest and brightest 

 of the children of winter 

 is this happy fairy — 

 smaller and brighter even than the Pine Warbler. 

 Though most frequently seen pecking for his 

 scanty fare along pine branches and in evergreen 

 bushes, he is not confined to such, and being in 

 winter very sociable with other small birds, goes 

 wherever they do. I have seen him in the door- 



