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the green grass below, warbling its delightful 

 notes in the descent, it always reminds me of 

 that bird. The note of this bird has been trans- 

 lated by the ingenious and much esteemed natu- 

 ralist, Nuttall, as follows : 



Bobolink, Bobolink, Tom Denny, Tom Denny, Pay me 

 the five Pounds you borrowed of me more than a y-e-a-r-a-go. 



I have before stated that a close observer of 

 birds can discern a difference in their notes, even 

 of the same species. During my residence in 

 the country, some years ago, there was one of 

 these birds which had its nest in a field of grass 

 of about an acre, adjoining the house of my next 

 neighbor. This bird had a very peculiar note, 

 different, I think, from any I have ever heard; 

 and, although surrounded with these birds, which 

 had their nests in the adjacent meadows, besides 

 having them in cages in the house, all of which 

 were singing, I could always tell when this bird ' 

 sang; and the inmates of my family also would 



say, when they heard it, " There is Mr. "s 



Bobolink singing.'' This bird, being undisturbed, 

 raised its brood before the grass was cut, arid dis- 

 persed over the fields with its young, and the rest 



its species. And it is a remarkable fact, that 

 the next season a bird, having the same note. 



