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OUR SOUTHERN BIRDS 



log and into a tangle of brush, and melts into 

 invisibility in the soft gray of the winter woods. 

 If you can steal upon him while making his 

 morning toilet, as I have, you are lucky; or if 



HERMIT THRUSH 



Length 6% inches 



you are perfectly quiet he may remain for some 

 time sitting on a limb before you, regarding you 

 with gentle confidence and curiosity, and slowly 

 moving his rust-brown tail up and down. 



