COWBIRD 



24, 1905. Heard a loud rasping 

 "ker-chee-e-e" in the woods, utterly 

 unlike any note I ever heard a cowbird 

 utter before. I felt sure it was some 

 strange flycatcher note till I saw the bird. 

 He uttered it many times, such a queer, 

 grating sound. It never occurred to me it 

 could be anything but a flycatcher till I 

 watched the bird do it. 



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