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Ultteii and No two birds can differ more in their notes, and 

 r . . . that constantly, than those two, that I am acquainted 



with : for the one has a joyous, easy, laughing note, 

 Chaff the other a harsh loud chirp. The former is every 



way larger, and three-quarters of an inch longer, 

 and weighs two drachms and a half, while the latter weighs but 

 two ; so that the songster is one-fifth heavier than the chirper. 



I once saw notable sagacity in a willow-wren, which had built 

 in a bank in my fields. This bird a friend and myself had observed 

 as she sat in her nest, but were particularly careful not to disturb her, 

 though we saw she eyed us with some degree of jealousy. Some 

 days after, as we passed that way, we were desirous of remarking 

 how this brood went on ; but no nest could be found, till I happened 

 to take up a large bundle of long green moss, as it were carelessly 

 thrown over the nest, in order to dodge the eye of any impertinent 

 intruder. 



The chirper [or chiff-chaff] (being the first summer bird of passage 

 that is heard, the wryneck sometimes excepted) begins his notes in 

 the middle of March, and continues them through the spring and 

 summer, till the end of August. It utters two sharp piercing notes, 

 so loud in hollow woods as to occasion an echo. G. W. 



tJO 



