BLUEBIKD. 



SIALIA SIALIS. 



OUR first two spring visitors are the bluebird and 

 the robin, the bluebird invariably coming first. 

 The following are the principal features of the blue- 

 bird's songs as I took them, from time to time, last 

 season. 



Early on the morning of the 17th of March my ear 

 caught his first far, faint, but sweet notes. 





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Hear me, hear me. 



The weather was cold, and I heard no more for several 

 days ; but on the morning of the 25th one made bold to 

 come into the orchard, where he appeared to feel quite at 

 home. Though it was still cold, his pure, soft notes held 

 me within hearing for half an hour, during which time 

 some of his morning talk (the music of a bluebird is 

 often quite as much like talking as like singing) was 

 secured. 



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