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Salmon -Fishing. 



On the Dartmouth, the 

 extreme northern of the three rivers, the 

 so-called nightingales are singing con- 

 tinually, commencing at three a. m., at 

 the first gray of the morning. These 

 birds are probably a kind of sparrow, and 

 by no means true nightingales ;* but so 

 sad and sweet were their plaintive notes, that by a sort 

 of fascination we would lie awake to listen, at the ex- 

 pense of some hours of needed sleep. During two sea- 

 sons upon the other two rivers, only a few miles distant, 

 not one was heard. After some practice in imitating them, we 

 thought the following musical notation gave a very good idea of 

 the song, which varied slightly with different birds, and at different 

 times with the same bird. Between each double bar is a single song. 

 Numbers i and 2 are different songs of one bird, and Numbers 

 3 and 4 are songs of another bird. 



* [The white-throated sparrow ( Frin- 

 gilla albicollis, Wilson). During spring- 

 like days in December, while hunting 

 Bob White in the South, I have often 

 heard the soft, melancholy whistle of this 

 little songster, recalling to me, with " a 

 feeling of sadness and longing," the 

 blessed solitudes and the summer scents 

 of the Northern woods.] — Editor. 



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