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Our Red-eyed Vireo sang yesterday 
low-billed Cuckoo this morning. I staid by him for half an hour i 
hope of hearing him sing, but he only said, cuk , cuk , cuk once — hard 
to be called singing. 
I never saw a Cookoo so tame. He would 
sit on leafless bushes within six or seven paces, and let me ex- 
amine through my glass all the details of his plumage, the warm 
rufons of his wing-quills , his showy tail-spots etc. It is my 
impression that In have never s en either kind of Cookoo quite so 
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