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Soon after sunset a Pine Linnet perched in the top of S c^c, 
a White Pine near the lake shore on the knoll behind the Lake House^ 
sang practically without cessation for fully five minutes. Its song 
was not unlike that of a Goldfinch but feebler, higher-pitched, and 
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decidedly less musical, most of the notes having a^r usff y or \ metallic 
quality. At times it reminded me strongly of the long^twittering 
song of the Barn Swallow^with which I had several chances to compare 
it directly for two or three 
before the Linnet had ceased 
of these Swallows kept circling overhead 
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singing* 
