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and barns, where they find spiders and tlies that have laid them- 
selves up during the cold season. Ihit the grand support of the 
soft-billed birds in winter is tliat infinite profusion of anreliw 
of the Lc2ndo2)fera onh), which is fastened to the twigs of trees 
and their trunks, to the pales and walls of gardens and build- 
ings, and is found in every cranny and cleft of rock or rubbish, 
and even in the ground itself. 
JHK WRYNECK. 
Every species of titmouse winters with us; they liave what 
I call a kind of intermediate bill between tlie hard and the 
soft, between the Linna.^an genera of FrriKjilla and Motacilla. 
One species alone spends its whole time in the woods and 
fields, never retreating for succour, in the severest seasons, 
to houses and neighbiuiboods ; and that is ihe delicate long- 
