186 WOOD NOTES WILD. 
Bricgut PLuMaGE vs. Sona. — Contin. 
flowers: while the odorous blossoms are the pale off- 
spring of the North, the fragrant leaves and aromatic 
wood are found in the tropics. Henry Berthoud tells 
of a Bird of Paradise that he heard sing “ Partant pour 
la Syrie.” 
For an account of a brilliantly colored little bird, called in St. Domingo 
the organist (Pipra musica, Gmel.), “ because it sounds all the notes of the 
octave, rising from the bass to the treble,” see Buffon’s Natural Hist. 
(Trans. by Wm. Smellie, London, 1812), vol. xvi. pp. 346-347. 
Buffon believes this to be the same bird described under 
the name “bishop” in Dupratz’s Hist. of Louisiana : — 
“Its notes are so flexible, its warble so tender, that when we 
once hear it, we become more reserved in our eulogiums on 
the nightingale. Its song lasts during a Miserere, and during 
the whole time it never makes an inspiration; it rests twice 
as long before it renews its music, the whole interval elapsed 
being about two hours.” 
Organ-Bird. 
The trustworthy observer, Mr. Bates, writes of a songster 
of the Amazonian forest, called also the organ-bird, or 
realejho (Cyphorhinus cantans) : — 
“When its singular notes strike the ear for the first time the impres- 
sion cannot be resisted that they are produced by a human voice. Some 
musical boy must be gathering fruits in the thickets, and is singing a few 
notes just to cheer himself. The tones become more fluty and plaintive, —~ 
they are now those of a flageolet; and notwithstanding the utter impos- 
sibility of the thing, one is for the moment convinced that some one is 
playing that instrument. .... It is the only songster which makes an 
impression on the natives, who sometimes rest their paddles whilst travel- 
