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known by the name of Whip -p o or- W ill , from con- 
stantly repeating these words. But the most extra- 
ordinary note yet remains to he mentioned, that 
of the Campanero, or Bell-Bird, found in South 
America, and also in Africa ( Cotinga carunculata ) . 
A traveller in the first-mentioned country, speaks of 
it as never failing to attract the attention of a pas- 
senger, at a distance of even three miles, when it 
may be heard tolling, like a distant church-bell. 
When every other bird, during the heat of the day, 
has ceased to sing, and all nature is hushed in mid- 
night silence, the Campanero alone is heard. Its 
toll sounds, then a pause for a minute, then another 
toll, then another pause, and then a toll, and again a 
pause. In Africa, two travelling missionaries have 
given nearly the same account, but at somewhat 
greater length. They were journeying onwards, in 
the solitude of the wilderness, when the note of the 
Campanero fell upon their ear. “ ‘ Listen/ said my 
companion, ‘did not you hear a church-bell?' We 
paused, and it tolled again ; and so strong was the 
resemblance, that we could scarcely persuade our- 
selves that we did not hear the low and solemn 
sound of a distant passing-bell. When all was 
silent, it came at intervals upon the ear, heavy and 
slow, like a death-toll ; all again was then silent, 
and then again the Bell-Bird's note was borne upon 
the wind. We never seemed to approach it, but 
that deep, melancholy, distant, dream-like sound, 
still continued, at times, to haunt us like an omen 
of evil." 
How the Bell-Bird utters this deep loud note is 
not known, though it is supposed that a fleshy pro- 
