BIRDS WITH UNMUSICAL VOICES. 



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can (many of them) imitate all creation from the 

 voice of man down to a creaking barn door ! 



Three of the strangest of the bird voices (they are 

 also very familiar ones) are those of the whip-poor- 



Wliip-poor-wilL 



will, night hawk, and screech owl. The first every 

 one recognizes, and the uncanny tones of the last 

 probably every one knows without being able to tell 

 what kind of a creature they belong to. Both of 

 these birds are, in a measure, musical, although it 

 will be difficult for me to represent by musical signs 

 the true character of their singing. As every one, I 

 suppose, can recall the exact intonation of the whip- 

 poor-will's few notes, I imagine it will be interesting 

 to see how they can be musically rendered : 



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The "kuk" we can, only hear if we are within 

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