Florida, Suwanee River. 
Mar 20-AprI,I890 
Common, frequenting thickets omn the bank of the river and 
its connecting creeks. The song of the male varies exeeedingly 
with different individuals. I heard some of the finest singers 
that I have ever listened to. .The bird ism undoubtedly one of the 
best singers in the south. -A-few^indivi duals possessed a great 
variety of notes. It is very easy to call a male my imitating its 
whistle. The bird will come usually as soon as it hears the imi- 
tation, seemingly incited by anger or jealousy U 
Florida , 
Canavere.1, Banana Creek, 
Mar 7- 15 
A pair inhabited the palmetto scrub near the house, and there 
were some males in pepper Hammock. I also saw a few birds in 
the mangrove thicket bordering some of the creeks. The males were 
in full song at the time of my visit, and some of them had 
V varied notej, 
The Singing of Birds. E. P.Bickneli. 
Cardinalis virginianus. Cardinal Grosbeak. 
This bird is of irregular occurrence, but I have heard it in full 
song in every month from April to August inclusive. I have also 
seen it in every month from October to February, but through 
this time its only utterance was a fine sharp chip or click. 
At this northernmost limit of its habitat its voice is certainly not 
less loud and forcible than in the South. Before I was familiar 
with its notes I was startled from sleep early one July morning 
by a violent whistling. It sounded so nervously hurried and 
intentionally loud that, in my sudden awakening, I thought it an 
alarm intended to arouse me. A moment later could have been 
seen at the window a figure en dishabille , and on a near grape- 
vine trellis a Cardinal Grosbeak in the rdle of a fiery-coated 
alarmist. Atlk, 2, April, 1885. p. /57 
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