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few ev woods, the glen, or mountain ; in a 
connif hear them from the adjoining 
even f*’ "w-den fence, the road before the door, and 
the root of the dwelling-house, long after 
iffnne. ^ have retired to rest. Some of the more 
nrone?" superstitions considered this near ap- 
less tl* fereboding no good to the family, nothing 
mpTn)'**' siekncss, misfortune, or death, to some of its 
out , 1 ^‘sits, however, so often occur with- 
senm!'^ consequences, that this superstitious dread 
seems on the decline. 
He is now a regul.ar acquaintance. Every morning 
from ■■‘‘P'*’ ’■^petitions are heard 
Snfout If H " ‘»- “ore are 
TairZ r ®ase “ the 
mwfu distance from each 
other, the noise, mingling with the echoes from the 
mountains, is really surprising. Strangers, in parts of 
e country where these birds are numerous, find it 
^ost impossible for some time to sleep ; while to those 
liihfi***^'***'"*^*^ T'f file sound often serves as a 
Tl assist their repose. 
wor P'“”'y <0 articulate the 
been generally applied to them, 
with Ire'Tt*^* *^-^*^*' syllables being uttered 
to each rei>o?f whole in about a second 
their wbh^ * oi "’**cu two or more males meet, 
d f^/P-P°»r-w,ll altercations become much more 
power n as if each were straining to over- 
W an t ot'mr. Wien near, you often 
these ttm cluck between the notes. At 
low not f’ r* at. almost aU others, they fly 
min’o- aboft’rt.^'f surface, skim- 
on thrvff and before the door, alighting 
laidninht tb' ^** *’ ®®ttling on the roof. Towards 
hioonlwbt generally become silent, unless in clear 
till morninm «'•« '““’d with litUe inter^sion 
Precinitn„e“i 1 , ece he a creek near, with high 
“tnations. During the day they sit in the most 
