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groves, in close-covered cages, and are so prized, that a 

 fine, well-instructed bird, has been known to sell for 4tL 

 We have spoken of our English Goat-sucker, but 

 there arc many of this family never seen in our island, 

 and far more interesting. In South America there are 

 several sorts, whose notes are so singular, that the 

 natives look upon them with a degree of awe and reve- 

 rence, and will never kill them. They have received 

 names from the different words they are supposed to 

 speak, and absolutely bewilder strangers on first arriving 

 in those parts. Thus, one of the most common will 

 alight close to the door, and, on a person going out, 

 will flit, and settle a few yards before him, crying out, 

 " Who are you ? who, who, who are you ?" another calls 

 out, " Work away, work away, work away!" a third, in 

 a mournful tone, says " Willy come go : Willy, Willy, 

 Willy come go !" While another, which is also a very 

 common one, is known by the name of Whip-poor- Will, 

 from constantly repeating these words. But the most 

 extraordinary note yet remains to be mentioned, that 

 of the Campanero, or Bell-Bird, found in South America, 

 and also in Africa (Gotinga carunculata). A traveller in 

 the first-mentioned country speaks of it as never failing 

 to attract the attention of a passenger, at a distance of 

 even three miles, when it may be heard tolling, like a 

 distant church-bell. When every other bird, during the 

 heat of the day, has ceased to sing, and all nature is 

 hushed in midnight silence, the Campanero alone is 

 heard. Its toll sounds, then a pause for a minute, then 

 another toll, then another pause, and then a toll, and 

 again a pause. In Africa, two travelling missionaries 

 have given nearly the same account, but at somewhat 

 greater length. They were journeying onwards, in the 

 solitude of the wilderness, when the note of the Campa- 

 nero fell upon their ear. " ( Listen/ said my companion, 

 'did not you hear a church-bell?' We paused, and it 

 tolled again ; and so strong was the resemblance, that 

 we could scarcely persuade ourselves that we did not 



