CHAPTER VII. 
OTHER EARLY BIRDS. 
T HE bird-talks did not come regularly every even- 
ing, for sometimes things happened to prevent 
them, and sometimes Miss Harson thought it better 
to give the children a little variety, for fear that their 
interest might flag ; but they always had two or three 
of them a week, and their cry was still for “ birds.” 
The season was now well into April, and, as their 
teacher said, the birds were crowding upon them 
very fast. 
“ After the first sparrows and blue-birds and robins 
have appeared,” said Miss Harson, “ there are several 
little fellows who seem clamoring for notice all at 
once; but to-night we will take the golden- winged 
wood-pecker (Fig. 7), who has almost as many names 
as any scion of royalty. *The country boys call him 
i yarup/ from his peculiar note in the spring, which 
is supposed to sound like this ; 6 high-hole/ from the 
height at which he makes his nest in a hole in some 
old tree ; ‘ flicker/ from the flash of his golden wings ; 
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