Vol. XIII1 
1896 J 
Baily, Birds of Northern Elk County , Pa. 
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of our commonest birds. Every one knows in general what birds 
eat during the winter, but few can tell you whether the Junco 
takes any insects on the warmer days of January or not, or just 
what the Chickadee is eating when he hangs head downward from 
a lichen-grayed branch. We need more observers who go out 
with the spirit of the writer of ‘ The Brown Thrush in Eastern 
Massachusetts.’ 
