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OUR BIRDS IN WINTER. 
ging good wishes and kind farewells, the whole 
party flew out of the swamp, and began their 
Northern trip. 
We will not follow them in this excursion ; 
suffice it to say that in the strange lands they 
visited, and the new scenes and incidents that 
passed before them, they found an almost end- 
less fund of entertainment and instruction ; and, 
when the Chick-a-dees parted from the Wrens 
and Crossbills, and returned to their summer 
homes, the accounts they gave their many 
friends were in the highest degree interesting 
and instructive. So much so, in fact, that it 
is a very common thing now-a-days for many 
of the birds that we have had meetings with 
in the preceding pages, to visit the north and 
see for themselves the wonderful things they 
had heard about in Chick-a-dee’s and his 
family’s narrations. 
