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lovely emerald-green ])iid with a yellow breast and 

 white wing-bars, while the hen is green mottled with 

 brown and bronze above and whitish below : in the 

 latter, the Gilded Cuckoo, the sexes are alike, coppery 

 green flecked with white above, and whitish with 

 coppery bars below. They are usually seen in pairs, 

 and like to perch on tall trees, where the cocks con- 

 tinually utter their loud whistling calls, and whence 

 thej' hawk after passing insects. They make no nest 

 but resemble the Common Cuckoo in their parasitism 

 on smaller birds. 



We have one species of HONEYGUIDE, Indi- 

 cator indicator, a brownish bird with a yellow shoulder 

 patch, which I must not omit, though I do not think 

 I have ever seen it. 



(To be continued) . 



^Tbe Jnbeiitance of Song in IPasserine 

 Bir£)6. * 



Remarks on the Devei^opment of Song in the Rose- 



BREASTED GROSBEAK, Zaiuelodia ludoviciana (Liniiseus), 



AND THE Meadow-Lark, Sturnella magna (Ijniiseus). 



By WiIvI^iam E. D. Scott. 



{Contifiued from page 156). 



I shall speak of the Meadowlarks in a much more 



general way than of the Grosbeaks, as I have been 



unable to watch them as closely, for they have not 



been caged, but have been at large, first in a room by 



themselves until February, and later associated in 



another room with a number of Meadowlarks that had 



been reared in previous years. I particularly wish to 



refer to one of the birds, a male which has arrested 



the attention of all observers. 



• [Reprinted, by permission of tlie Author, from the American Journal 

 Science, N. S., Vol. XIX., No. 495, June 24, 1904.] 



