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HABITS OF BIRDS. 



all seasons: when kept in a cage, even when he 

 seems perfectly contented, he is always mute*." We 

 venture to say, however, that nobody will ever be 

 able to authenticate this statement, for the organs of 

 the bird, were there no other obstacle,' seem altoge- 

 ther incapable of the variety of modulation which the 

 habit imputed to it would require, though, like most, 

 if not all other birds, this species can express more 

 than one sort of feeling. Father Kircher, who at- 

 tended minutely to this curious subject, has expressed 

 the various notes of poultry by musical characters 

 of which the following is a copy. 



Cock's notes. 



Cu-cu-li-cu, Cu-cu-H-cu, Cu-cu-li-cu. 



Hen after laying. 



-11-0 1 1 Q 1 1 1 1 + 



i=*: 



To to to to to to to to to to to to to to to 



to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to 

 Hen catling her chickens. 



1 



?-&. 



:p=P=P=P=P=P=P=n: 



-^-$=ttf=tt^ 



Glo glo glo glo glo glo glo glo glo glo. 



Anim.Biog.ii,219. 



