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its song is not so loud, varied, or so long sustained ; 

 here the tone is of a sweet and plaintive quality, 

 which harmonizes well with the wild and silent wood- 

 lands, where alone it is heard in the mornings and 

 evenings of sultry tropical days." 



I append parallel lists of the better-known Ameri- 

 can and English song-birds, marking in each, with an 

 asterisk, those that are probably the better songsters ; 

 followed by a list of other American songsters, some 

 of which are not represented in the British avifauna : 



Old England. 



* Wood-lark. 

 Song-thrush. 



* Jenny Wren. 

 Willow wren. 



* Red-breast. 



* Redstart. 

 Hedge sparrow. 

 Yellow-hammer. 



* Sky-lark. 

 Swallow. 



* Blackcap. 

 Titlark. 



* Blackbird. 

 White-throat. 

 Goldfinch. 

 Green finch. 

 Reed-sparrow. 

 Linnet. 



* Chaffinch. 



* Nightingale. 

 Missal thrush. 

 Great titmouse. 

 Bulfinch. 



New England. 

 Meadow-lark. 



* Wood-thrush. 

 House-wren. 



* Winter wren. 

 Bluebird. 

 Redstart. 



* Song-sparrow. 



* Fox-sparrow. 

 Bobolink. 

 Swallow. 

 Wood wagtail. 



Titlark (spring and fall). 

 Robin. 



* Maryland yellow-throat. 

 Goldfinch. 



* Wood-sparrow. 



* Vesper sparrow. 



* Purple finch. 

 Indigo-bird. 

 Water wagtail. 



* Hermit thrush. 

 Savanna sparrow. 

 Chickadee. 



