Bird Notes and their Value 



ever and anon, the moment they give 

 voice. 



This is Hkely to prove a source of 

 increased satisfaction upon nearly ever}^ 

 new trip you take; and especially if your 

 progress be interfered with at places by 

 dense foliage, or the trip be continued, 

 perchance, into the dusk of evening — 

 conditions under which even good eyes 

 and field-glasses are of Httle account. 



In addition to my own Hmited acquire- 

 ments along this line I have chosen a 

 method followed from time immemorial 

 by wiser ones than I, and learned that it 

 helps greatly to associate many songs 

 the moment your ear has them alertly, 

 with names and words which these others 

 have found in them, or even names 

 and words of your own. The whistling 

 Bob White (Quail), the Teacher-bird 

 (Golden-crowned Thrush), the Peabody- 

 bird (White-throated Sparrow), the Phoebe 

 (Bridge Pewee), the Towhee (Ground-robin), 

 the Bobolink, and the Killdeer are most 

 familiar among the birds that actually 



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