OUR HOME BIRDS. 
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bird belongs, is a very interesting one ; and although 
the other members do not appear perhaps so early in 
the spring as some other birds, we may as well talk 
of them now while we are upon the subject of spar- 
rows. 
“ The little chipping sparrow, or hair-bird (Fig. 1), 
Fig. 1 . — Chipping Sparrow. 
is still smaller than the song-sparrow, being only five 
inches and a quarter long, a mite of a creature, who 
performs the very funny part of waking his fellow- 
birds up in the morning. He sits on the ground to 
do this, and although if it has been a warm summer 
night he may have twittered all through the hours 
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