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note lower and lower, till the last is scarcely heard, 

 })ausing a moment or two between each exclamation, and 

 you will have some idea of the moaning of the Great 

 Goatsucker of Demerara. Other species articulate some 

 words so distinctly, that they have received their names 

 from the sentences they utter, and absolutely bewilder a 

 stranger on his arrival in their vicinity. One sits down 

 close to your door, or Hies and alights three or four yards 







Fig. 28. — chuck will's widow. 



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before you as you walk along the road, crying, who 

 fjou^ who, who are you. Another bids you work away, 

 ivork, work, vmrk away. A third cries moui'iifully, 

 ' Willy -come-(jo, Willy, Willy, Willy-come-go ;' and a fourth 



