BLUEBIRD. 
SIALIA SIALIS. 
UR first two spring visitors are the bluebird and 
the robin, the bluebird invariably coming first. 
The following are the principal features of the blue- 
bird’s songs as I took them, from time to time, last 
season. 
Early on the morning of the 17th of March my ear 
caught his first far, faint, but sweet notes. 
peck fol 
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Hear me, hear me. 
The weather was cold, and I heard no more for several 
days; but on the morning of the 25th one made bold to 
come into the orchard, where he appeared to feel quite at 
home. Though it was still cold, his pure, soft notes held 
me within hearing for half an hour, during which time 
some of his morning talk (the music of a bluebird is 
often quite as much like talking as like singing) was 
secured, 
