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wrote, " by the performance. Perhaps 

 it may have been a narrow feeling of 

 patriotism which influenced me; but cer- 

 tainly it seemed to me far finer than the 

 song of any nightingale that I ever heard, 

 and I have listened to them often in north- 

 ern Italy." What a shame that even science 

 should combine with vulgarity to add 

 Mimus polyglottus to the already repulsive 

 name of such a bird! 



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