. Boys and birds; or, Miss Truat's mission . Fig. 35.— Titmouse. 1 Merrily singing his chick-a-dee-dee. The habits of this bird are much like the lastnamed, except its winter stay in the North. He is agreedy and diligeut search-er after caterpillars, moths,and other hurtful orchardpests, and should be leftunharmed by the sportsmanand boys. Dear littlechickadees! we see themevery sunny day in wintercoming with the flocks of snow-birds and sparrowsto pick up the small seeds and crumbs which maybe thrown them, paying us with their swreet notesof song; let us ever give them a welcome and ablessing
. Boys and birds; or, Miss Truat's mission . Fig. 35.— Titmouse. 1 Merrily singing his chick-a-dee-dee. The habits of this bird are much like the lastnamed, except its winter stay in the North. He is agreedy and diligeut search-er after caterpillars, moths,and other hurtful orchardpests, and should be leftunharmed by the sportsmanand boys. Dear littlechickadees! we see themevery sunny day in wintercoming with the flocks of snow-birds and sparrowsto pick up the small seeds and crumbs which maybe thrown them, paying us with their swreet notesof song; let us ever give them a welcome and ablessing. Passing on but a short distance farther, the atten-tion of the party was attractedby three or four active littlebirds busily creeping aroundthe trunks and limbs of thetrees, uttering often repeatednotes that sounded like thesyllables, whe-chee, ivhe-cheeSee here, Miss Truat, in-quired David, isnt this oneof the little woodpeckers that you told us about? 20. Wta. ./J.—Creeper. 230 BOYS AND BIEDS. The bird is often mistaken for one, was the re-ply, but his family relations are quite is a specimen of the Black and White Creepers,and is placed among the wood warblers. (Fig. 39.)The class seems to be a link between the creepersand warblers, as its members partake of some of thecharacteristics of both of these varieties. They cometo us quite early in the year, and at once begintheir useful service in our orchards, where they areseen running up and down and around the appleand cherry trees, searching every hiding-place forworms and their larvae. The family of warblers is a very numerous one, and contains some of ourmost charming birds andsweetest singers. Thespecies are widely dissem-inated both in the Oldand New Worlds. Ourvarieties are quite uni-form in size, though dif-fering much in adjust-ment and color of plum-age. Most of the speciesare shy of observation, confining their haunts to the borders of swamps
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