OBSERVATIONS Otl 
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With regard to the original notes, however, 
of this bird, we are ftill at a lofs ; as this can on- 
ly be known by thofe who are accurately ac- 
quainted with the fong of the other American 
birds. 
Kahn indeed informs us, that the natural 
fong is excellent*; but this traveller fee ms not 
to have been long enough in America to have 
diftinguifhed what were the genuine notes ; 
with us, mimics do not often fuc.ceed but in 
imitations. 
1 have little doubt, however, but that this 
bird would be fully equal to the fong of the 
Nightingale in its whole compnfs ; but then, 
from the attention which the mocker pays to any 
fort of b i fa gree able noifes, thefe capital notes 
would be always clebafed by a bad mixture. 
We have one mocking-bird in England, 
which is the Sky-Lark; as, contrary to a gene- 
ral obfervation I have before made, this bird 
will catch the note of any other which hangs 
near it, even after the Sky-Lark note is fixed. 
For this reafon, the bird-fanciers often place the 
Sky-Lark next one which hath not been long 
caught, in order, as they term it, to keep the 
caged Sky-Lark hone]}. 
The queftion, indeed, may be afked, why 
the wild Sky-Lark, with thefe powers of imi- 
•j'. Vol. I. p, 219. 
