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harmonicon quality of which I have spoken. So 

 pronounced is this final harmonic tone that it might 

 well be expressed thus : ^mcP^^ 



Now, this is but one 

 phrases which a single 



M 



of six musical 



* bird sang. An- 

 other, but a less gifted musician, sang a similar phrase. 

 ^_^ ^ But, of all the singers, not one. 



bird 



however clear - voiced, equaled 

 in dexterity and precision the 

 I heard last summer, which sang the following : 

 » -^ _ The distinctness and 



m 



was 

 the bird finished 

 maple tree 



rapidity of the last six 

 short notes was simply 

 phenomenal ; they furnished a fitting cadenza to a 

 long song of certainly eight or nine passages not one 



of which was like an- m, other. After 



his solo — in a 

 not ten yards 

 from where I sat 

 — he fluttered silent- 

 ly away to a neigh- 

 boring brook to " wet his 

 whistle." 



Wholly unUke the her- 

 mit's music is that of the skulking veery (Turdus 

 fuscescens), who haunts the shrubbery by the river's 

 brink, and leaves the hillside grove entirely to his 



The Veery. 



