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__ iness, but his black bib and cap, his high, white collar were 
immaculately arranged and preserved his dignity. Finding 
the stretching inconvenient, down he dropped upon his del- 
icacy and pegged off pieces until driven away by larger 
birds. Even then he several times grabbed as large a piece 
as he could reach on the bird table, regardless of the solitary 
eating custom of the others, but he always went Ol 1a 
rush to eat by himself in the tree. 
oo 2 Yakima—Taken by Mrs. Granville Ross Pike 
A Feast for Birds 
Jays and towhees took turns at eating, but each dined 
in lonely majesty as if two were a crowd on a bird table, 
except when disturbed by the saucy Chickadees. One of the 
latter was eating when a flock of about twenty Oregon Jun- 
cos discovered the feast and lit upon convenient high places, 
- in their soft grays and pinks, looking like huge Japanese 
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