SONG SPARROW. 
Boston, not less than two hundred miles away from the 
other singers whose music is recorded above. 
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Mr. Torrey, in that delightful little volume entitled 
Footing it in Franconia, makes a comparison of the 
music of the Song and Vesper Sparrows as follows: 
‘* Now a Song Sparrow breaks out in his breezy, charac- 
teristically abrupt manner. He isa bird with fine gifts 
of cheeriness and versatility; but when he sets himself 
against the Vesper, as now. it is like prose against poetry, 
plain talk against music. So it seems to me at this mo- 
ment, I mean to say. At another time, in another 
mood, I might tone down the comparison, though I 
could never say less than that the Vesper is my favorite. 
His gifts are sweetness and perfection.” 
But I am disposed to believe that every one who will 
study the music of the Song Sparrow long enough will 
inevitably come to the conclusion that he is Nature’s clev- 
erest song genius. Indeed, in justification of such belief, 
I have only to call attention again to the extraordinary 
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