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Townsend, Birds of Cape 
Breton Island. 
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in the breast. This full nuptial song is certainly very different 
from the song occasionally heard at other seasons, and would 
hardly be recognized by one who had heard the latter only . 1 
The American Crossbill, on the other hand, rarely sang. Occa- 
sionally one might hear the call-notes so rapidly repeated that they 
resembled a trilling song. One bird emitted this song as it flew, 
following it up by several high, quickly repeated squeeky notes. 
1 Since this was written, my attention was called to a very similar description of 
this glorious song by Olive Thorne Miller in her ‘With the Birds in Maine’ (Boston, 
1904), pp. 10 to 12. 
