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The Lincoln* a Finch w s very shy at first and at 
all times exceedingly alert and suspicious'but he showed 
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a nice and, on the whole,/(li ooriralnation in his judgment of 
different sights and sounds. K keen, intelligent little 
traveller, evidently, quite alive to the fact that dangers 
threatened at all times, but too cool-headed and experienced 
to be subject to the needless and foolish panics which - s 
&t.lze upon so many of he smaller birds. He soon learned 
to disregard the movements and noises which we made within 
the cabin and the grains thundering by on the other side of 
the river did not disturb hi® in the least but If our door 
was suddenly thrown open or if a footstep was heard approach¬ 
ing along the river path he at ones retreated Into the 
thicket behind the fern®, dodging fro® bush to bush and 
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keeping behind anything that would serve as a screen until, 
all was quiet again, when he would presently reappe.br at the 
edge of the cover and,after a short recon aiss&nce,begin 
feeding again. 
Hut however busily engaged at the seed, no sight 
or sound escaped him. If a Chipmunk rustled the dry leaves 
on the neighboring hillside, he would stand erect and crane 
up his neck, tur .1 .g his head slowly from side to side to 
w tch or listen, When a wift, of which there were many 
flyi >g ab »ut, parsed close overhead with a sound of rushing 
wings, the parroy old crouch close to the ground and 
remain motionless for a minute or ■ore. But when nothing 
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