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ourselves to coax the fellow into making an- 

 other display of himself. Sure enough, he 

 responded almost inomediately, and we had 

 another satisfying observation of him, though 

 this time he kept silence. I was espec- 

 ially interested to find, what I had on gen- 

 eral considerations suspected, that Lincoln 

 finches were like other members of their 

 family. Take them right (by themselves, 

 and without startling them to begin with), 

 and they could be as complaisant as one 

 could desire, no matter how timid and elu- 

 sive they might be under different condi- 

 tions. Our bird was certainly a jewel. For 

 a while he pleased us by perching side by 

 side with a song sparrow. " You see how 

 much smaller I am," he might have been say- 

 ing ; " you may know me partly by that." 



And we fancied we should know him 

 thereafter ; but a novice's knowledge is 

 only a novice's, as we were to be freshly 

 reminded that very day. Our jaunt was 

 round Garnet Hill, the aU-day expedition 

 before referred to. I will not rehearse the 

 story of it ; but while we were on the farther 

 side of the hill, somewhere in Lisbon, we 



