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It is a delightful reminiscence of a brilliant past, told by one of the best wits still extant." London Daily News. Onward; or, The Mountain Clamberers. A Tale of Progress. By Jane Anne Winscom. I vol. 12mo. 75 cents.

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It contained four of the prettiest half-fledged bird babies that have ever greeted my sight. Oddly enough, our tiny clamberers utter a loud, shrill alarm-call that bears close resemblance to the querulous protest of the sparrow hawk as you approach her nest or young.

True, the other feathered clamberers and carpenters are fully as useful, but depend upon it, the nuthatches do their share in preserving our forests and orchards. The white-breasted nuthatch is our most common species east of the great plains, breeding from the Gulf States to the northern border of the United States and to New Brunswick.

18: All the facts and figures contained in this chapter are taken from the works of the Marchese Pepoli. 19: Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 293. Passages from the Autobiography of Sidney, Lady Morgan, 1 vol. 12mo. cloth, $1. Onward; or, The Mountain Clamberers. A Tale of Progress. By Jane Anne Winscom. 1 vol. 12mo., cloth, 75 cents. Legends and Lyrics. Shakers.