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33^ Woodcraft Manual for Boys bird is about nine inches long, dark slate in color, with a black- brown cap, black tail, and a red patch "on the seat of its pants." It abounds in the Eastern States and Canada, north to Ottawa, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia. Common House Wren (Troglodytes aidon). This little fairy b about five inches long; soft brown above and brownish gray below, it is barred with dusky brown on wings and tail. It nests in a hole, and is found in wooded America east of the Plains, north to Saskatchewan, Ottawa, and Maine. Chickadee (Penthesles atrUapiUus). This cheerful little bird is five and a half inches long. Its cap and throat are black. Wood Thrush Chickadee Its Upper parts are gray, its under parts brownish, its cheeks irfiite, no streaks anywhere. It does not migrate, so it is well known in the winter woods of eastern America up to the Cana- dian region where the Brown-capped or Hudson Chickadee takes its place. Its familiar song chickadee dee dee has given it its name. Wood Thrush (Sylocickla mustelinus). About eight inches long, cinnamon-brown above, brightest on head, white below.