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Show BIRDS FROM ARCTIC REGIONS Many of These Winter Visitoi? Aie . Very Tame. ft Is surprising that th.er are birds which ccme to us only to spend the winter, leaving us again a' the beginning of spring for north- em lands and snow -banked hlll"lde. for i i he long day nnd pale twilight nights of the arctic region. Birds that raise th'ir broods In the far : j treeoss northland. where heather grae , I and stunted alder grow on o shallow, soak-I soak-I ing aoll underlaid by a great depth of eternal ( Ice, it the approach of winter gnther Into : great roving fleicks to surge southward to the . ! gentler climate 0f our bllzzardly tempera- ture ' winteisl Tet oil young country folks I havej seen theses reotless. wandering flocks of i winter lovers, and occasionally gVcn in the towns and cltlea there arrive unfam.llar com- ( pnr.les of fat, fluffy birds, busllv Opening the i ccnes of the flrs and spruces or devouring the buds of the maples. Many of these much-travcld little follows are wonderfully tame, and Geem not to ex- ' , perlence fear of man no universal with anl- ! j rnals that rear their young In his neighbor-I neighbor-I hood. PlDe grosbeaks ond crossbills whose . leal homes are. n tho silent mos-fllled spruce 1 fcrcets of the great North will almost allow ! I themselves to be caught In your hand With tho field roving birds, liko the snow , huntings, horned larki and longspurs, this , fi arleaeneai is not found, probably from the constant lookout they are forced to keep against the cunning and hungry white foxes ; and the daring trap Jawed little ermine that lersletently hunt them In their northlond home But the rosy little red polls, the I creepers, kinglets. little friend chlckalee," I as the north. in Indians call him. nnd all the other deep foreal dwellers, are as unafraid i of us as they are of the gentle porcupines and deer of their home woods bt. Nicholas |