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^ piril 5 There was a fine flock of Sparrows assembled in front 
o? the cabin this morning and most of them spent the entire 
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day there eating;., apparently,, without, cessation^ This, I 
think, is their usual habit when, during a snow-storm, they 
are lucky enough to find an abundance of food. During the 
fine weather of the past week they have visited the seed bed 
only thrice daily — at morning, noon, and a little before 
sunset, there having been always an interval of two or three 
•hours in the forenoon and one of equal length in the afternoon 
when the seeds were wholly neglected, 
A pair of Robins, the resident pair of fownlta, and 
two Chickadees also spent most of the day in front of the 
cabin and a forlorn-looking Phoebe appeared there in the 
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of Fox 
afternoon and watched with apparent envy the Sparrows 
engaged at a feast in which he, poor fellow, could take no 
part. The Robins did not, of course, touch the seeds but they 
were ahl© to solace themselves with occasional earthworms 
which they pulled from the wet, steaming ground along the 
path. 
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The Fox Sparrows, as is their wont-during a snow¬ 
storm at this season, sang all day long at short intervals, 
ooeatimes singly but oftener two or three in quick succession, 
one taking up the theme directly his predecessor ceased, or 
even breaking in on him at the last of his song. It was 
Indeed a glorious concert when several birds were thus engaged. 
