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This morning I heard strange notes and saw strange birds in the trees near the house. I did not have time to investigate till this afternoon and then I found that they were the Pine Siskins. The underparts were yellowish white streaked heavily with black. back streaked with black; and feathers edged with rufous; belly unstreaked; long feathers of wing edged with white; tail notched; crown dusky; rest of head like breast
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only darker. Some were darker than the others and had the underparts more distinctly marked with yellow and the white on the wings yellow.  The bill is strong and conical. They are a little smaller than an English sparrow. The flight is slightly bounding and undecided. There were about twenty five of them. They fed on the small cones of the  Arbor vitae. The note generally given while sitting was a twittering [[underlined]] Chwit-wit wit wit. [[/underlined]] Another was a