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and slimmer than most of the sparrows, 
its note a pleasant chirp. 
The Shrike, or Butcherbird, is said to 
be a fine singer, but though I have seen 
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many of them, I never yet have heard a 
note from one. It kills the small birds 
and larger insects, and impales their 
bodies on thorns and pointed limbs, where 
it preserves them until it can eat them at 
its leisure. It appears larger than the 
robin, but much of its apparent size is 
due to the arrangement of its feathers, 
which are very fluffy. 
The White-bellied Nuthatch runs up and 
down and around the tree limbs. It has 
a peculiarly sharp trumpet cry of hank. 
i have mentioned the song and the tree 
sparrows, but we have several others 
besides these. We have the English, the 
Field, the Fox-colored, the Savannah, the 
Swamp, the White-crowned, the White- 
throated, and the Chipping Sparrows. 
| ' The English Sparrow, unfortunately, is 
not now a stranger to us. He is a type of 
