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pause for a minute, then a pause again, then a toll, and again 

 a pause ; then for six or eight minutes no toll is heard ; then 

 another comes strangely and solemnly amid the tall columns 

 and fretted arches of the sylvan temple. Sometimes of a 

 morning, and sometimes in the evening, and even when the 

 meridian sun has silenced all the other songsters of the grove, 



THE CAMPANERO, OK HKI.L- KI UL>. 



that strange toll is heard. At length, high up on the dried 

 top of an aged maura, a snow-white bird may he seen, no 

 larger than a pigeon ; and yet it is the creature who is utter- 

 ing those strange sounds. It is another species of the cotinga 

 ■ — the well-known campanero, or bell-bird. On its forehead 

 rises a spiral tube nearly three inches long, which is of jet- 



