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of some young birds than a song-note. A reedy sound 

 in a reedy place, and one likes to hear it in the green 

 valley among the wind-rustled, sword-shaped leaves and 



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waving spears of rush and aquatic grass. So fond is he 

 of his own music that he will sing even when moulting. 

 I was amused one day when listening to a reed bunting 

 sitting on a top branch of a dwarf alder tree in the 



valley by Ovington, busily occupied in preening his 



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