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NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE.
on such a restless tribe; and when once the young begin to appear it is all confusion: there is no distinction of genus, species, or sex.
Nuthatch.
In breeding-time snipes play over the moors, piping and humming; they always hum as they are descending. Is not their hum ventriloquous like that of the turkey? Some suspect it is made by their wings.
This morning I saw the golden-crowned wren, whose crown glitters like burnished gold.[e3] It often hangs like a titmouse, with its back downwards.
Yours, etc., etc.
notes to letter xvi.