The Birds’ Calendar 
characteristic difference in the music of the two 
seasons than is ever produced by artificial chimes. 
The sounds of night are quite as apt to the oc- 
casion as those of day. What could be more 
ill-timed in the darkness than the clear whistle 
of the white-throat, or the warble of the purple 
finch? Neither could the sombre call of owl, 
and whippoorwill, and night-hawk blend with 
full sunlight. Crickets and katydids are vo- 
cal undulations of darkness, and the croaking of 
frogs, to be most effective, must have a_ back- 
ground of gloom and water. Daylight is ac- 
companied by vivacious, ringing tones ; night, 
by harsh, strident, and hoarse noises. The rob- 
in stands sentinel at the gates of day and night, 
his mellow warble greeting the first gleam of 
morning light, and bidding a farewell when 
day is done. y 
Almost always, in my rambles in one direc- 
tion, I could hear, and often see, that not un- 
common but irregularly distributed bird, the 
Virginia partridge—a good-looking, gamey 
specimen (gamey in the flesh, not in the spir- 
it), and familiarly known as ‘‘ Bob-white ’’— 
so-called from the fact that the whistled note of 
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