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song started out with the “Quit, cheery, cheery!” of a 
robin’s theme, but it had bubbles, and ripples, and many 
tender tones of its own. Sometimes, the notes were liquid, 
rounded, and sometimes, they were split, or sharped into 
“Your-Up! Your-up! Ken-ne-wick! Ken-ne-wick!”’ He even 
threw in a canary’s warble, which no robin attempts to sing, 
and the whole melody had an exquisite quality which made a 
_ listener think of vespers in St. Peters. His theme was con- 
tinued longer than the mellow rounded music of the robin, 
and his high notes were repeated over and over with dozens 
‘Seattle—Taken by Te Ronald Chapman 
Waist Grosbeak—Collecting | 
of as which made it easy to distinguish from the 
notes of the robin, or the “Pretty ! Air-ic!”’ of the Louisiana 
Tanager, with both of which songs it is sometimes confused. 
| The row of mulberry trees that edge the yard are visited 
_ by the grosbeaks, the California purple finches, robins, and 
Louisiana tanagers from the time the berries begin to— 
-redden, but the latter find the fruit rather large for their 
slender bills to manage. We often see them twisting it 
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