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their striped head and wings and sparrow-like form. They 
make a fine photograph. Our Alaskan travelers noticed this 
bird, and the robin, in regions beyond the arctic circle last 
year. 
Among other tourists are the golden-crowned warbler, the 
ruby-crowned kinglet, or little king, and the varied thrush. 
The hermit thrush is another, always a solitary individual, as 
if disgusted with what it has seen of the world, or love-sick, or 
a possible poet. Probably the latter. This hermit is rufous 
brown, shading to yellowish underneath. There are dusky 
spots on the sides of the neck, and around the eye is a yellow- 
C. M Davis Eng. Co. INTERMEDIATE SPARROW-FROM LIFE. 
ish orbital ring. This last renders the hermit easy of identifi¬ 
cation as he hops among the orange trees. 
There is the red-shafted flicker who hammers away at the 
house gables until everybody is awake in the morning, and 
then darts off with a sheen of the rising sun under his wings. 
And there too is the red-breasted sapsucker, running up the 
pepper trunks or backing down the same thoroughfare, red, 
and black, and white, as gay a young fellow as there is in all 
our land. He takes care to keep on the opposite side of the 
tree if you are near, where he amuses himself by pecking holes 
in the bark. He then flies off, to wait until the sap dries, 
