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much bird music lost "upon the desert air" in the wild forest and wood 

 solitudes, and much of it is hushed by the heat of the midsummer sun. 

 The birds are not domestic and do not become intimately associated 

 with man. Their songs have an illusive, plaintive strain, as if they had 

 not been touched by civilization, and because they do stand so much 

 apart, the ear must be attuned to their songs to apprehend and appre- 

 ciate them in the confused murmur of nature. 



Dallas, Texas. 



Photo by I.. I>. (iilniore. 

 ROCKY MOUNTAIN JAY. 



