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POPULAR HISTORY OP BIRDS. 
never fails to attract the notice of the traveller, and, ac- 
cording to the authority just quoted, may be heard at a 
distance of three miles, tolhng its note every three or four 
minutes, like the bell of some far-off convent. Erom this 
circumstance the bell-bird has acquired its Spanish and 
English name. The top of a lofty Mora-tree is at such 
times its favourite resort ; but we must let the ^ Wanderer in 
Demerara^ tell the story of its notes. " With many of the 
feathered race, he pays the common tribute of a morning 
and an evening song ; and even when the meridian sun has 
shut in silence the mouths of almost the whole of animated 
nature, the campanero still cheers the forest. You hear his 
toll, and then a paase for a minute ; then another toll, and 
then a pause again ; and then a toll, and again a pause. Then 
he is silent for six or eight minutes, and then another toll ; 
and so on» Actseon would stop in mid-chase, Maria would 
defer her evening song, and Orpheus himself would drop his 
lute, to listen to him ; so sweet, so novel, so romantic is the 
toll of the pretty snow-white campanero. He is never seen 
to feed with the other cotingas, nor is it known in what part 
of Guiana he makes his nest"^.^^ 
Some of the species of this family have acquired celebrity 
* Wauderings, pp. 113, 114. 
