. Our native songsters . in the buds of winter or early spring. So cleverlydoes it pick the bones of small birds, on whichit feeds, that Klein proposes to employ it in thepreparation of skeletons. Then, too, we have that busy little bird, the Cole-tit, or Colcmousc {Pants oter), which everybodywho has lived in the country knows as a gicat fre-quenter of our gardens and shrubberies, comingthere to seize the insects, or to gather the seedsof the pines and larches, which it stores away insome hole, for its future necessities. But its song,if song it may be called, is little more than a chirp,and
. Our native songsters . in the buds of winter or early spring. So cleverlydoes it pick the bones of small birds, on whichit feeds, that Klein proposes to employ it in thepreparation of skeletons. Then, too, we have that busy little bird, the Cole-tit, or Colcmousc {Pants oter), which everybodywho has lived in the country knows as a gicat fre-quenter of our gardens and shrubberies, comingthere to seize the insects, or to gather the seedsof the pines and larches, which it stores away insome hole, for its future necessities. But its song,if song it may be called, is little more than a chirp,and cannot rival at all the soft, clear, ringing noteswhich may be heard among the reeds of themarshes, where the rare Bearded Titmouse [Cola-mopliilus hiarmicus) sings them out in soft and silvertones. But the song of the Long-tailed Tit* (Pants * The Long-tailed Tit is five inches and a half in and face greyish white; a patch of black passes over eacheye; back and rump greyish-red, with a broad triangular patch.
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