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BIRD MIMICS 



Catbird 



You cannot judge the disposition of a person by his 

 clothes, neither can you judge that of a bird by its feath- 

 ers. A soft gray suit and black cap is the garb worn by 

 the Catbird, — raiment that might indicate its wearer to be 

 a quiet, Quaker-like bird although in reality no other has a 

 more irrascible temper than our Catbird. A perfect model 

 of propriety when everything is in accord with his tempera- 

 ment but a real virago and scold when the least thing goes 

 amiss. 



I always like to listen to the Catbird song. It is a song 



Fig. 112. A real virago if you provoke, her to anger; and her 

 ire is very easily aroused. 



