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Boston, not less than two hundred miles away from the 

 Dther singers whose music is recorded above. 



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Mr. Torrey, in that delightful little volume entitled 

 Footing it in Franconia, makes a comparison of the 

 music of the Song and Vesper Sparrows as follows: 

 " Now a Song Sparrow breaks out in his breezy, charac- 

 teristically abrupt manner. He is a bird with fine gifts 

 of cheeriness and versatility; but when he sets himself 

 against the Vesper, as now. it is like prose against poetry, 

 plain talk against music. So it seems to me at this mo- 

 ment, I mean to say. At another time, in another 

 mood, I might tone down the comparison, though I 

 could never say less than that the Vesper is my favorite. 

 His gifts are sweetness and perfection." 



But I am disposed to believe that every one who will 

 'study the music of the Song Sparrow long enough will 

 inevitably come to the conclusion that he is Nature's clev- 

 erest song genius. Indeed , in j ustification of such belief t 

 I have only to call attention again to the extraordinary 

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