THE NIDIOLOGIST. 



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ders. The tourist season was not yet at 

 hand, and it must have been some very un- 

 usual mission, they thought, that led me 

 to so often prowl the woods and snow sheds. 

 In these latter, it may be remarked, both 

 Robins and Blue-fronted Jays build their 

 nests close by the rushing trains. 



Scops. 



A CHAT ABOUT CHATS. 



On May ist my friend and I were tucked 

 away in our blankets in open ground by a 

 creek in San Benito county, seeking sleep 

 after a hard day's ride in the saddle. 



It was here I first became vividly im- 

 pressed with the nocturnal music of the 

 Long-tailed Chat. One particularly exu- 

 berant fellow took up a positioii in some 

 willows across the stream, a hundred feet 

 away from us, and there he ran the gamut 

 of his songs with their odd variation all 

 night long. 



We listened to his concert for some time 

 before we fell asleep, and several times 

 during the night we heard the Chat's lou I 

 notes repeated without cessation. It was 

 moonlight and he made a night of it. 



Some one has said that the Long-tailed 

 Chat is not an imitator, as one might be- 

 lieve after listening to its varied repertoire 

 of odd cries and notes. The proof of this 

 assertion was stated to be, what is undoubt- 

 edly true, that in widely different regions 

 the various notes of the Chat are almost 

 identical. But our Chat is an imitator of 

 no mean order, nevertheless, as I happen 

 to know. 



I remember my surprise on one occasion 

 to hear, along the wooded Pajaro river, the 

 note of the Long-billed Curlew. It was a 

 perfect imitation, though on a small scale. 

 The performer was none other than a 

 versatile Chat. H. R. T. 



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