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large apple-tree close by. As the notes were not familiar 

 to me, I went round the tree several times in order to dis- 

 cover whence they proceeded. One of the notes was like 

 the noise which may be made by striking two pebbles 

 together, the other a querulous chirp, and they seemed to 

 come from different parts of the tree. The author of the 

 music, however, allowed me several times to come very near 



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him, and I satisfied myself that both sounds proceeded 

 from the same bird, a male Redstart, whose nest, I after- 

 wards heard, was built in an adjoining shed. This singular 

 power of ventriloquizing, or making its note apparently 

 proceed from a distant place, is possessed also by the 

 Nightingale, as any one may assure himself who will 

 quietly creep up to within a, few yards of one of these 



