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While at the Farm this forenoon I heard a Dove cooing 
and presently saw the bird perched in the top of a tall tree 
on the road just below the house. He was serenading his mate, 
who was feeding on the ground in the ploughed field in front 
of the house. As I stood listening to the male, it struck 
me that the solemnity and impressiveness of this Dove's 
cooing is due not so much to the quality of his voice as to 
the carefully measured intervals between the notes. I noted 
this rendering of the cooing:— o^- erk- oo*; coo , coo . Some¬ 
times the bird gave only the first three notes and occasionally 
only the oo- eVk . While cooing he sat rather erect but in an 
easy attitude. I could not see that he aocompanied the notes 
by any movements of the head or neck. 
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In Holden* s Hill meadow I heard the other evening 
(May 3) a double note something like the phu- e of a Quail 
on the ea-a of a Carolina Rail, but yet different from both 
these calls. It was given only once and very near me — 
within twenty yards certainly. At the time I set it down 
for some unusual call of a Hyla. To-night I heard it again -— 
six or eight times at intervals of half-a-minute or more, 
in the little meadow at the western end of Ball’s Hill. On 
both occasions it mingled with the voices of hundreds of 
