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summer dress, perhaps extending to all the cloth- 

 ing feathers. The other specimen exhibited the 

 same peculiarity, but in a less degree. 



I have much pleasure in adding the following 

 note contained in a letter from my friend, received 

 since my arrival in England. Mr. Hill, having 

 made some inquiries of a gentleman residing among 

 the Blue Mountains, Andrew G. Johnston, Esq., 

 received the following reply : (l I have no copy of 

 my musical score of the Solitaire's song. The bird 

 now [July 27th] uses only its long breve notes 

 and its octave, often out of tune, more often 

 so than perfect. In the spring they are very 

 numerous in the deep forests, and warble very 

 prettily, somewhat like this : 





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sometimes thus 



The pointed crotchets are very sweet sounds, 



(!) S~\ 



and seem to sound E vil evil. I tried in vain to 

 get one this spring, but I find the negroes know 

 nothing about them. Hearing them one day sing- 

 ing, I asked two maroon-men who also listened, 

 what birds they were. One said a grey speckled 

 bird 9 mottled like a guinea-fowl: the other that it 

 was black, and red about the rump and under the 

 wings." My conjectures on both points, are thus 



