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W. H. Hudson, gives the following enthusiastic description of the little tobogganist of his native woodlands: "When I see him sitting quite still for a few moments on a branch of a tree in his most characteristic nuthatch attitude, on or under the branch, perched horizontally or vertically, with head or tail uppermost, but always with the body placed beetle-wise against the bark, head raised, and the straight, sharp bill pointed like an arm lifted to denote attention, at such times he looks less like a living than a sculptured bird, a bird cut out of beautifully variegated marble blue-gray, buff, and chestnut, and placed against the tree to deceive the eye.
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