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Attk, XII, Jtily, 1895, p. -^o^, 



In relating the circumstance to a gentleman whose knowledge of our 

 home birds is only exceeded by his modesty, he told me that he once 

 heard a Robin {Mernla migratoria) imitating perfectly the cry of the 

 Whip-poor-will. I could reconcile the statement with personal experience 

 when only last month I listened to a Robin \Yhose pipe had evidently 

 been attuned to the wild cry of the Nightjar or perhaps to the strains of 

 more than one bird of song, for it was very unlike his own clear, excel- 

 lent music. The ways of birds are sometimes quite as unusual as their 



