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OUR BIRDS IN WINTER. 
Ob, what handsome birds they must have 
been ! ” exclaimed one of the ardent young 
female Chick-a-dees. 
^^They had long,- pointed wings,” continued 
Chick, without noticing the interruption, and 
when they flew, they darted about in different 
directions like the Swallows. In fact, the 
people on the coast, as I have since learned, 
call them Sea Swallows, and they are often 
called Terns. 
THE TERN. 
Well, we looked over the islands, and not 
