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SOME CANADIAN BIRDS. 



SONG SPARROW. 



These plainly dressed "little gray birds," wearing coats of 

 mottled black, bay, and ash, and showing white fronts, spotted with 

 brown, occur abundantly all over the Eastern Provinces as summer 

 residents, while a few hardy fellows linger through the winter 

 months. Their song is familiar to every lover of the beautiful 

 things of nature, and though not one of the great songs of our fields 

 is so sweet in tone and so tender that one must stop to listen to the 

 singer even if the simple melody is repeated at every few steps of a 

 country ramble, and at every hour of the day. Simple as this 

 melody is, it is subject to many changes, and some of the best 

 singers — for there are individual differences — have command of as 

 many as seven different themes, or variations of the same theme. 



