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BIRD LIFE IN WASHINGTON 
PINE SISKIN 
Have we not all wondered who are 
those dainty tiny rovers moving in such 
larke flocks. There are from fifty to five 
hundred in one group. Their plumage is 
streaked grey and brown with yellow 
patches on wings and tail that show in 
flight. 
Photo hu W. L. Dawson 
NEST AND EGGS OF PINE SISKIN 
A little child said to me one day : “I saw 
hundreds of tiny birds this morning. 
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There were so many, I could hardly see 
the sky through them.” Their tiny flut¬ 
tering wings make me think of a musical 
instrument with a thousand keys in mo- 
tion. 
The flocks may be seen during any 
month of the year, but they are very 
much in evidence from October to Febru- 
