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A BRIGAND OF THE AIR. 
find ; the thrushes arrest the full flow of their melody ; the skylark 
ceases his strain of exultation, and descends tremblingly from his aerial 
"all repeat the cry ok alabsi " 
flight. Buntings, linnets, finches, all repeat the cry of alarm, and seek 
to conceal themselves in the depths of the thickest foliage. For a 
minute or so the intruder remains perched on some point of vantage ; 
