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quenting our yards and gardens in company with 

 Junco hy a nails and Spi:-clla u ion It col a for the 

 cnnn1,)S and scraps which have been cast away by 

 the cook. It commonly associates with our 

 ordinary barn-yard fowls for its share of cracked 

 corn, broom-seed, and wheat-screenings. It de- 

 lights to build in low bushes by the sides of open 

 fields, or on the borders of thickets, and frequently 

 in depressions on the ground surmounted by tall 



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For weeks anterior to nidification the males 

 ;< < j k the tall tree-tops and regale us with the most 

 delicious music. Its sung is heard as early as the 

 i 5th of March, and continues from early morning 



until Ion"' after sunset with scarcely an interims- 



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sion. In the middle of the day when most other 

 species are silent and have shrunk away to the 



.refreshin- : -hides, its song is as ardent as ever. 



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For variation and modulation ol voice it is un- 

 excelled by few specie >me of its strains re- 

 rail to mind the drlicitms symphonies of Turd us 

 mustelinus\ and others, again, bear a close resem 

 blano- to those of Spizdla monticola. At most 

 times, its song is lively and vivacious, and occasion- 

 all)' assumes a plaintive character. The Canary's 

 exceeds it in variety, but lacks its sweetness and 

 pathos. The following syllables express with 

 tolerable exactness the song of a capital singer: 

 tsl-tsi-tsi-fwee-tio-tw'-tte), wha-wliadada-ke-ke-ke, 

 tsi-tsl-tsi- fa *ee-tu 'i:i~ii, tsl-tsl-tsl-twa-turrrr^ isi-tsi-t* l- 



tsl-twa-twa-twiiiil-tw . Its ordinary 



