92 "TRICKS AND MANNERS" OF A CAT-BIRD. 



He has many other notes and calls, besides his 

 exquisite songs, but there is hardly a shade of 

 emotion that he cannot express by the inflec- 

 tion he gives to that one cry. Whether he 

 proclaims a melancholy mood by softly breath- 

 ing it from closed bill, or jerks it out with a 

 snap at the end, as though he bit it off, when 

 he is deprived of some cherished treasure, as, 

 for instance, a rubber band, from one ex- 

 treme to the other, with all the shades between, 

 each expresses a meaning, and each is intelligi- 

 ble to a loving and observing student of his 

 ways. 



