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 as much as to say:  "Pardon me,  but there's a feather out of place."

There are ever so many more birds in our gardens, woods and fields. Mr. John Burroughs says forty or fifty song birds visit us every summer. Most of them belong to the families of the thrushes, the finches, the blackbirds, the wrens, swallows, woodpeckers, flycatchers and little warblers. It is the small birds that sing. And you can tell what family a bird belongs to by its song and its food habits, more than by its colors or its nest. How many of our wild birds do you know? Their names and a good many of their pictures are in this book. (See, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , (chickadee), , , , , , , , , .)