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they were eating the green buds from the end of p ine and spruce. 
I am sure of this because I got so near as to see just what they 
took and the fresh br-eak from whence it came. I have often seen 
them getting ash and maple and spruce seeds, rock maple buds, su- 
mach and high cranberries. I never knew before that they ate such 
pitchy food as the buds of the pine. Letter of Manly Hardy, 
Dec. 1889. 
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