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New -World, and have no representatives 

 whatever in Europe. Neither have the ori- 

 oles or the tanagers, or the bobolinks, all of 

 them among the most musical of our birds. 



On the other hand, the European war- 

 blers, to which family the nightingale be- 

 longs, are not represented at all in the New 

 World. The American warblers, which, 

 properly speaking, are not warblers at all, 

 are weak singers, and have nothing in 

 common with the celebrated Old World 

 warblers. According to Burroughs, how- 

 ever, in England at least, the nightingale 

 is very rare ; and in his chapter in '' Fresh 

 Fields " entitled *' A Search for a Nightin- 

 gale " he gives us an amusing account of 

 his desperate though fruitless endeavor to 

 find that bird. 



The skylark, too, at least in the settled 

 parts of this country, has no proper repre- 

 sentative, so that the two most famous Old 

 World songsters are denied to the New 

 World. Thus has nature to the Eastern 

 and Western Continent dealt out her gifts 

 with an even and impartial hand. 



