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Birds, Vol. II, No 3, September 1897-Various · For the Birds

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  Speaker 1: Section one of Birds, Volume two, number three, September eighteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 1: please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Avay in July
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  Speaker 1: two thousand twenty. Birds Song. How songs are made is
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  Speaker 1: a mystery, which, studied for years, still baffles me. Our
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  Speaker 1: Age Stoddard. Some birds are poets and sing all summer,
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  Speaker 1: says Thoroaux. They are the true singers any man can
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  Speaker 1: write verses in the love season. We are most interested
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  Speaker 1: in those birds that sing for the love of music,
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  Speaker 1: and not of their mates, who mediate their strains and
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  Speaker 1: amuse themselves with singing. The birds whose strains are of
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  Speaker 1: deeper sentiment. Thoreau does not mention by name any of
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  Speaker 1: the poet birds to which he alludes, but we think
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  Speaker 1: our selections for the present months include some of them.
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  Speaker 1: The most beautiful specimen of all, which is as rich
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  Speaker 1: in color and sun sparkle as the most polished gem
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  Speaker 1: to which he owes his name. The ruby throated humming
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  Speaker 1: bird cannot sing at all, uttering only a shrill, mouselike squeak.
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  Speaker 1: The humming sound made by his wings is far more
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  Speaker 1: agreeable than his voice. For when the mild gold stars
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  Speaker 1: flower out, it announces his presence. Then a dim shape
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  Speaker 1: quivers about some sweet, rich heart of a rose. He
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  Speaker 1: hovers over all the flowers that possess the peculiar sweetness
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  Speaker 1: that he loves, the blossoms of the honeysuckle, the red,
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  Speaker 1: the white, and the yellow roses, and the morning glory.
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  Speaker 1: The red clover is as sweet to him as to
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  Speaker 1: the honey bee, and a pair of them may often
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  Speaker 1: be seen hovering over the blossoms for a moment, and
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  Speaker 1: then disappearing the quickness of a flash of light, soon
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  Speaker 1: to return to the same spot and repeat the performance. Squeak,
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  Speaker 1: squeak is probably their call. Note something of the poet
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  Speaker 1: is the yellow warbler. Though his song is not quite
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  Speaker 1: as long as an epic. He repeats it a little
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  Speaker 1: too often, perhaps, but there is such a pervading cheerfulness
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  Speaker 1: about it that we will not quarrel with the author.
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  Speaker 1: Sweet sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweeter, Sweeter is his frequent
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  Speaker 1: contribution to the volume of nature, And all the while
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  Speaker 1: he is darting about the trees, carrying sun glints on
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  Speaker 1: his back wherever he goes. His song is appropriate to
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  Speaker 1: every season, but it is in the spring, when we
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  Speaker 1: hear it first, that it is doubly welcome to the ear.
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  Speaker 1: The grateful heart asks with poor Dylan, what tidings hath
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  Speaker 1: the warbler heard that bids him leave the lands of
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  Speaker 1: summer for woods and fields where april yields bleak. Welcome,
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  Speaker 1: come to the blithe newcomer. The mourning dove may be
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  Speaker 1: called the poet of melancholy, for its song is to
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  Speaker 1: us without one element of cheerfulness. Hopeless despair is in
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  Speaker 1: every note, And as the bird undoubtedly does have cheerful moods,
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  Speaker 1: as indicated by its actions, its song must be appreciated
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  Speaker 1: only by its mate. Coo oo, coo ooh. Suddenly thrown
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  Speaker 1: upon the air and resounding near and far is something
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  Speaker 1: hardly to be extolled, we should think. And yet the
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  Speaker 1: beautiful and graceful dove possesses so many pretty ways that
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  Speaker 1: everyone is attracted to it. And the tender affection of
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  Speaker 1: the mated pair is so manifest, and their constancy so conspicuous,
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  Speaker 1: that the name has become a symbol of domestic concord.
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  Speaker 1: The cuckoo must utter his nose in order to be recognized,
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  Speaker 1: for few that are learned in bird lore can discriminate him,
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  Speaker 1: save from his notes. He proclaims himself by calling forth
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  Speaker 1: his own name, so that it is impossible to make
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  Speaker 1: a mistake about him.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: His note is an agreeable one and has made him famous.
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  Speaker 1: As he loses his song in the summer months, he
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  Speaker 1: is inclined to make good use of it when he
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  Speaker 1: finds it again. English boys are so skillful in imitating
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  Speaker 1: the cuckoo's song, which they do to an exasperating extent,
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  Speaker 1: that the bird himself may often wish for that of
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  Speaker 1: the nightingale, which is inimitable. But the cuckoo's song, monotonous
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  Speaker 1: as it is, is decidedly to be preferred to that
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  Speaker 1: of the female house wren with its chit chitchitchit when
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  Speaker 1: suspicious or in anger. The male, however, is a real poet,
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  Speaker 1: let us say, and sings a merry roulard sudden, abruptly ended,
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  Speaker 1: and frequently repeated. He sings apparently for the love of music,
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  Speaker 1: and is as merry and gay when his mate is
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  Speaker 1: absent as when she is at his side, proving that
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  Speaker 1: his singing is not solely for her benefit. So good
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  Speaker 1: an authority, as doctor COEs vouches for the exquisite vocalization
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  Speaker 1: of the ruby crowned Kinglet have you ever heard of
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  Speaker 1: wire vibrating? Such is the call note of the ruby
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  Speaker 1: thin and metallic. But his song has a fullness, a variety,
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  Speaker 1: and a melody, which, being often heard in the spring migration,
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  Speaker 1: make this feathered beauty additionally attractive. Many of the fine
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  Speaker 1: songsters are not brilliantly attired, but this fellow has a
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  Speaker 1: combination of attractions to commend him as worthy of the
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  Speaker 1: bird student's careful attention. Of the hermit thrush, whose song
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  Speaker 1: is celebrated, we will say, only read everything you can
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  Speaker 1: find about him. He will not be discovered easily, For
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  Speaker 1: even Olive Thorne Miller, who is presumed to know all
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  Speaker 1: about birds, tell of her pursuit of the hermit in
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  Speaker 1: northern New York, where it was said to be abundant,
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  Speaker 1: and finding when she looked for him that he had
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  Speaker 1: always been there and was gone. But one day in
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  Speaker 1: August she saw the bird and heard the song, and exclaimed,
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  Speaker 1: this only was lacking these crowns my summer. The song
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  Speaker 1: sparrow can sing too, and the phoebe beloved of man,
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  Speaker 1: and the white breast did not hatch a little. They
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  Speaker 1: do not require the long seeking of the hermit thrush,
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  Speaker 1: whose very name implies that he prefers to flock by himself,
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  Speaker 1: but can be seen in our parks throughout the season.
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  Speaker 1: But the sparrow loves the companionship of man, and has
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  Speaker 1: often been a solace to him. It is stated by
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  Speaker 1: the biographer of Kant, the great metaphysician, that at the
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  Speaker 1: age of eighty, he had become indifferent to much that
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  Speaker 1: was passing around him in which he had formerly taken
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  Speaker 1: great interest. The flowers showed their beauties hues to him
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  Speaker 1: in vain. His weary vision gave little heed to their loveliness.
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  Speaker 1: Their perfume came unheeded to the scents which before had
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  Speaker 1: inhaled it with eagerness. The coming on of spring, which
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  Speaker 1: he had been accustomed to hail with delight, now gave
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  Speaker 1: him no joy, save that it brought back a little sparrow,
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  Speaker 1: which came annually and made its home in a tree
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  Speaker 1: that stood by his window. Year after year, as one
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  Speaker 1: generation went the way of all the earth, another would
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  Speaker 1: return to its birthplace to reward the tender care of
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  Speaker 1: their benefactor by singing to him their pleasant songs, and
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  Speaker 1: he longed for their return in the spring with an
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  Speaker 1: eagerness and intensity of expectation. How many provisions Nature has
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  Speaker 1: for keeping us simple hearted and childlike. The song sparrow
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  Speaker 1: is one of them. C. C. Marble, end of section one.
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  Speaker 3: Section two of Birds, Volume two, number three, September eighteen
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  Speaker 3: ninety seven, recorded for Librifox dot Org by speakeasybe the
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  Speaker 3: yellow warbler. In a recent article, Angus Gangs described so
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  Speaker 3: delightfully some of the characteristics of the yellow warbler or
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  Speaker 3: summer yellow bird, sometimes called the wild canary, that we
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  Speaker 3: are tempted to make use of part of it. Back
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  Speaker 3: and forth across the garden, the little yellow birds were flitting,
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  Speaker 3: dodging through current in gooseberry bushes, hiding in the lilacs,
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  Speaker 3: swaying for an instant on a swinging spray of grapevines,
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  Speaker 3: and then flashing out across the garden beds like yellow sunbeams.
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  Speaker 3: They were lit, slender, dainty little creatures, and were so
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  Speaker 3: quick in their movements that I could not recognize them
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  Speaker 3: at first, But when one of them hopped down before me,
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  Speaker 3: lifted a fallen leaf and dragged a cutworm from beneath it,
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  Speaker 3: and turning his head, gave me a sidewise glance. With
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  Speaker 3: his victims still struggling in his beak, I knew him.
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  Speaker 3: His gay coat was yellow without the black cap, wings
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  Speaker 3: and tail, which show in such marked contrast to the
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  Speaker 3: bright canary hue of that other yellow bird, the goldfinch.
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  Speaker 3: Small and delicate as these birds are, they have been
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  Speaker 3: on a long journey to the southward to spend the winter,
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  Speaker 3: and now on the first of May, they had returned
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  Speaker 3: to their old home to find the land at its fairest,
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  Speaker 3: all blossoms, buds, balmby air, sunshine and melody. They flitted
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  Speaker 3: about in their restless way. They sang the soft, low
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  Speaker 3: warbling trills, which gave them their name of yellow warbler.
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  Speaker 3: Missus Right says, these beautiful birds come like whirling leaves,
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  Speaker 3: half autumn yellow, half green of spring, the colors blending
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  Speaker 3: as the outer petals of grass grown daffodils.
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  Speaker 4: Lovely, cheerful little spirits, darting about the trees, exclaiming at
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  Speaker 4: each morsel they glean, carrying sunglints on their backs wherever
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  Speaker 4: they go, They should make the gloomiest misanthroat.
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  Speaker 3: Feel the season's charm. They are so sociable and confiding,
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  Speaker 3: feeling as much at home in the trees by the
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  Speaker 3: house as in seclusion. The yellow bird builds in bushes,
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  Speaker 3: and the nest is a wonderful example of bird architecture. Milkweed, lint,
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  Speaker 3: and strips of fine bark or glued to twigs and
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  Speaker 3: form the exterior of the nest. Its inner lining is
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  Speaker 3: made of silky down on dandelion balls woven together with horsehair.
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  Speaker 3: In this dainty nest are laid four or five creamy
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  Speaker 3: white eggs speckled with lilac tents and red browns. The
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  Speaker 3: unwelcome egg of the cowbird is often found in the
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  Speaker 3: yellowbird's nest, but this warbler builds a floor over the egg,
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  Speaker 3: repeating the expedient if the cowbird continues her mischief, until
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  Speaker 3: sometimes a third story is erected. A pair of summer
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  Speaker 3: yellow birds, we are told, had built their nest in
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  Speaker 3: a wild rose bush and were rearing their family in
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  Speaker 3: a wilderness of fragrant blossoms, whose tinted petals dropped upon
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  Speaker 3: the dainty nest were settled upon the back of the
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  Speaker 3: brooding mother. The birds, however, did not stay to have
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  Speaker 3: their pictures taken, but their nest may be seen among
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  Speaker 3: the roses. The yellow warbler song is sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, sweeter, sweeter,
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  Speaker 3: seven times repeated end of section two. This recording is
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  Speaker 3: in the public domain.
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  Speaker 5: Section three of Birds, Volume two, number three, September eighteen
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  Speaker 5: ninety seven, recorded for Liberbox by Keviness the hermit Thrush.
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  Speaker 5: In John Burrows Birds and Poets, this master singer is
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  Speaker 5: described as the most melodious of our songsters, with the
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  Speaker 5: exception of the wood thrush, a bird who strains more
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  Speaker 5: than any others express harmony and serenity. And he complains
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  Speaker 5: that no meritive poetic monument has yet been reared to it.
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  Speaker 5: But there can be no good reason for complaining of
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  Speaker 5: the absence of appreciative prose concerning the hermit. One writer says,
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  Speaker 5: how pleasantly his notes greet the year amid the shrieking
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  Speaker 5: of the wind and the driving snow, Or when in
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  Speaker 5: a calm and lucid interval of genial weather, we hear
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  Speaker 5: him sing, if possible more richly than before, His saw
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  Speaker 5: reminds us of a coming season. When the now dreary
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  Speaker 5: landscape will be clothed in a blooming garb, befitting the
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  Speaker 5: vernal year of the song of the blackbird and lark,
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  Speaker 5: and host of other tuneful throats which usher in the
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  Speaker 5: lovely season. Should you disturb him when singing, he usually
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  Speaker 5: drops down and awaits your departure, though sometimes he merely
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  Speaker 5: retires to a neighboring tree and warbles as sweetly as before.
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  Speaker 5: In Birdcraft, missus Wright tells us better than any one
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  Speaker 5: else the story of the hermit. She says, this spring,
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  Speaker 5: the first week in May, when standing at the window
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  Speaker 5: about six o'clock in the morning, I heard an unusual note,
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  Speaker 5: and listen, think he had at first a woodthrush, and
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  Speaker 5: then a thrasher, But soon finding that it was neither
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  Speaker 5: of these, I opened the windows softly and looked among
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  Speaker 5: the nearby shrubs with my glass. The wonderful melody ascend
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  Speaker 5: it gradually in the scale as it progressed, now trilling,
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  Speaker 5: now legato, the most perfect, exalted, unrestrained, yet with all
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  Speaker 5: finished bird song I had ever heard. At the first note,
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  Speaker 5: I caught sight of the singer perching among the lower
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  Speaker 5: sprays of a dogwood tree. I could see him perfectly.
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  Speaker 5: It was the hermit thrush. In a moment, he began again.
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  Speaker 5: I've never heard the nightingale, but those who have say
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  Speaker 5: that it is the surroundings and its continual night seeing
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  Speaker 5: that make it even the equal of our hermit. For
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  Speaker 5: while the nightingales sing in numbers in the moonlit groves,
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  Speaker 5: the hermit tunes is lute, sometimes in inaccessible solitudes, and
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  Speaker 5: there is something immaterial and immortal about the song. The
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  Speaker 5: hermit thrush is comparatively common in the Northeast and in Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 5: It is, with the exception of the robin, the commonest
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  Speaker 5: of the thrushes in the Eastern As in many of
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  Speaker 5: the Middle States, it is only a migrant. It is
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  Speaker 5: usually regarded as a shy bird. It is a species
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  Speaker 5: of more general distribution than any of the small thrushes,
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  Speaker 5: being found entirely across the continent and north to the
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  Speaker 5: Arctic regions. It is not quite the same bird, however,
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  Speaker 5: in all parts of its range, the Rocky Mountain region
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  Speaker 5: being occupied by a larger grayer race, while on the
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  Speaker 5: Pacific coast state dwarf race takes its place. It is
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  Speaker 5: known in parts of New England as the ground, swamp Robin,
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  Speaker 5: and in other localities as swamp Angel. True lovers of
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  Speaker 5: nature find a certain spiritual satisfaction in the song of
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  Speaker 5: this bird. In the evening twilight of a June day,
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  Speaker 5: says one of these, when all nature seems resting and quiet,
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  Speaker 5: the liquid melting, lingering notes of the solitary bird would
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  Speaker 5: steal out upon the air and move us. Strangely, What
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  Speaker 5: was the feeling it awoke in our hearts? Was it
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  Speaker 5: sorrow or joy? Fear or hope, memory or expectation? And
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  Speaker 5: while we listened, we thought the meaning of it all
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  Speaker 5: was coming. Who was trembling on the air, and in
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  Speaker 5: an instant it would reach us. Then it faded, it
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  Speaker 5: was gone, and we could not even remember what it
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  Speaker 5: had been. And of section three. This recording is in
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  Speaker 5: the public domain. Section four of Birds, volume two, number three,
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  Speaker 5: September eighteen ninety seven, recorded for LibriVox by Keviness the
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  Speaker 5: Hermit Thrush. I am sorry, children that I cannot give
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  Speaker 5: you a specimen of my song as an introduction to
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  Speaker 5: the short story of my life. One writer about my
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  Speaker 5: family says, it is like this, Oh sphirril, spirril, Oh
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  Speaker 5: holy holy, oh clear away clear away, Oh, clear up,
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  Speaker 5: clear up, as if I were talking to the weather.
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  Speaker 5: May be my notes do sound something like that, But
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  Speaker 5: I prefer you should hear me sing when I am
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  Speaker 5: alone in the woods and other birds are silent. It
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  Speaker 5: is ever being said of me that I am as
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  Speaker 5: fine a singer as the English nightingale. I wish I
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  Speaker 5: could hear this rival of mine. Well. I have no
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  Speaker 5: doubt his voice is a sweet one, and I am
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  Speaker 5: not too vain of my own. I should like to
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  Speaker 5: compare notes with him. Why do not some of you
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  Speaker 5: children ask your parents to invite a few pairs of
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  Speaker 5: nightingales to come and settle here. They would like her climate,
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  Speaker 5: and would I am sure, be welcomed by all the
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  Speaker 5: birds with a warmth not accorded the English sparrow, who's
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  Speaker 5: taken possession, and in spite of my love for secret
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  Speaker 5: hiding places, will not even let me alone. When you
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  Speaker 5: are older, children, you can read all about me in
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  Speaker 5: another part of Birds. I will merely tell you that
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  Speaker 5: I lived with you only from May to October, coming
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  Speaker 5: and going away in company with the other thrushes. Though
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  Speaker 5: I keep pretty well to myself while here, and while
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  Speaker 5: building my nest and bringing up my little ones. I
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  Speaker 5: hide myself from the face of man, although I do
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  Speaker 5: not fear his presence. This is why I am called
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  Speaker 5: the hermit. If you wish to know in what way
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  Speaker 5: I am unlike my cousin thrushes in appearance, turn to
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  Speaker 5: pages eighty four and one eighty two Volume one of Birds.
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  Speaker 5: There you will see their pictures. I am one of
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  Speaker 5: the smallest of the family too. Some call me the
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  Speaker 5: brown bird with the rusty tail, and other names have
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  Speaker 5: been fitted to me as ground gleaner, tree trapper, and
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  Speaker 5: seat sower. But I do not like nicknames. I am
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  Speaker 5: just plain hermit thrush and as section four. This recording
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  Speaker 5: is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 6: Section five of Birds, Volume two, number three, September eighteen
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  Speaker 6: ninety seven, corded for LibriVox dot Org by Lindaree Nielsen, Vancouver,
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  Speaker 6: b c. The song sparrow glimmers lay the leafless thicket
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  Speaker 6: close beside my guarden gate, where so light from post
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  Speaker 6: to wicket hops the sparrow blithe sedate, who with meekly
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  Speaker 6: folded wing, comes to sun himself and sing. It was there,
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  Speaker 6: perhaps last year that his little house he built for
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  Speaker 6: he seemed to perk and peer, and to twitter too,
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  Speaker 6: and tilt the bare branches in between, with a fond,
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  Speaker 6: familiar mien. George Parsons Lathrop, we do not think it
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  Speaker 6: at all amiss to say that this darling among song
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  Speaker 6: birds can be heard singing near the everywhere the whole
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  Speaker 6: year round. Although he is supposed to come in March
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  Speaker 6: and leave us in November, we have heard him in February,
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  Speaker 6: when his little feet make tracks in the newly fallen snow,
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  Speaker 6: singing as cheerily as in April, May and June, when
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  Speaker 6: he is supposed to be in ecstasy. Even in August,
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  Speaker 6: when the heat of the dog days and his molting
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  Speaker 6: time drive him to leafy seclusion, his liquid notes may
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  Speaker 6: be listened for with certainty, while all through October they
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  Speaker 6: sound clearly above the rustling leaves. And some morning he
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  Speaker 6: comes to the dog wood by the arbor and announces
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  Speaker 6: the first frost in a song that is more direct
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  Speaker 6: than in which he told of spring. While the chestnuts
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  Speaker 6: fall from their velvet nests, he is singing in the hedge.
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  Speaker 6: But when the brush heaps burn away to fragrance smoke
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  Speaker 6: in November, they veil his song a little, but it
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  Speaker 6: still continues. While the song sparrow nests in the extreme
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  Speaker 6: northern part of Illinois, it is known in the more
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  Speaker 6: southern portions only as a winter resident. This is somewhat remarkable,
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  Speaker 6: it is thought, since along the Atlantic Coast it is
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  Speaker 6: one of the most abundant summer residents throughout Maryland and Virginia,
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  Speaker 6: in the same latitudes as southern Illinois, where it is
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  Speaker 6: a winter sojourner, abundant but very retiring, inhabiting almost solely
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  Speaker 6: the bushy swamps in the bottom lands. An unknown as
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  Speaker 6: a song bird, this is regarded as a remarkable instance
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  Speaker 6: of variation inhabits with locality, since in the Atlantic States
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  Speaker 6: it breeds abundantly and is, besides one of the most
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  Speaker 6: familiar of the native birds. The location of the song
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  Speaker 6: sparrow's nest is variable, sometimes on the ground or in
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  Speaker 6: a low bush, but usually in a secluded place, as
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  Speaker 6: its instinct of preservation enables it to find. A feverite
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  Speaker 6: spot is a deep shaded ravine through which a rivulet ripples,
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  Speaker 6: where the solitude is disturbed only by the notes of
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  Speaker 6: his song, made more sweet and clear by the prevailing silence.
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  Speaker 6: In of section five, this recording is in the public domain,
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  Speaker 6: section number six of Birds, volume two, number three, September
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  Speaker 6: eighteen ninety seven, recorded for LibriVox dot org by Lyndamrie Nielsen, Vancouver.
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  Speaker 4: B C.
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  Speaker 6: The song Sparrow. Dear young readers, I fancy many of
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  Speaker 6: the little folks who are readers of Birds are among
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  Speaker 6: my acquaintances. Though I have never spoken to you, I
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  Speaker 6: have seen your eyes brighten when my limpid little song
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  Speaker 6: has been borne to you by a passing breeze, which
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  Speaker 6: made known my presence. Once I saw a pale, worn
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: face turn to look at me from a window, a
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  Speaker 6: small pleasure lighting it up, and I too was pleased
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  Speaker 6: to think that I had given some one a moment's happiness.
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  Speaker 6: I have seen bird lovers, for we have lovers, and
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: many of them pause on the highway and listen to
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  Speaker 6: my pretty notes, which I know, as well as any one,
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  Speaker 6: have a cheerful and patient sound, and which all the
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  Speaker 6: world likes. For to be cheered and encouraged along the
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  Speaker 6: pathway of life is like a pleasant medicine to my
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  Speaker 6: weary and discouraged fellow citizens. For you must know I
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  Speaker 6: am a citizen, as my friend doctor Coos calls me,
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: and all my relatives. He and missus Mabel Osgoode write
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: have written a book about us called Citizen Bird, and
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: in it they have supported us in all our rights
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: which even you children are beginning to admit we have.
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  Speaker 6: You are kinder to us than you used to be.
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  Speaker 6: Some of you come quickly to a rescue from untaught
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  Speaker 6: and thoughtless boys, who we think, if they were made
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  Speaker 6: to know how sensitive we are to suffering and wrong,
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  Speaker 6: would turn to be our friends and protectors instead. One
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  Speaker 6: dear boy I remember well, and he is considered a
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: hero by the song Sparrows saved a nest of our
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: birdies from a cruel schoolboy Rubber. Why should not all
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  Speaker 6: strong boys become our champions. Many of them have great, honest,
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: sympathetic hearts in their bosoms, and if we can only
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: enlist them in our favor, they can give us a
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  Speaker 6: peace and protection which for years we have been sighing. Yes, sighing,
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  Speaker 6: because our hearts, though little, are none the less susceptible
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  Speaker 6: to all the asperities, the terrible asperities of human nature.
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  Speaker 6: Papa will tell you what I mean. You would not
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: understand bird language. Did you ever see my nest? I
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: build it near the ground and sometimes when kind friends
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  Speaker 6: prepare a little box for me, I occupy it. My
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: song is quite varied, but you will always recognize me
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  Speaker 6: by my call note check, check check. Some people say
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: they hear me repeat maids, maids, maids, hang on your
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: tea cattle. But I think this is only fancy, for
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: I can sing ever real song admired, I am sure
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  Speaker 6: by all who love song sparrow in of section six.
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  Speaker 6: This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 7: Section seven of Birds, volume two, number three, September eighteen
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  Speaker 7: ninety seven, recorded for LibriVox dot org by Amba Sweet thirteen.
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  Speaker 7: The Cuckoo. Our first introduction to the cuckoo was by
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: means of the operation, which issued hourly from a little
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: German clock, such as are frequently found in country inns.
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  Speaker 7: This particular clock had but one dial hand, and the
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  Speaker 7: exact time of day could not be determined by it
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  Speaker 7: until the appearance of the cuckoo, who, in a squeaking voice,
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: seemed to announce that it was just one hour later
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  Speaker 7: or earlier, as the case might be, than at his
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  Speaker 7: last appearance. We were puzzled, and remember fancying that a
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: sun dial in clear weather would be far more satisfactory
• 27:41
  Speaker 7: as a time plase cuckoo, the image repeated and then
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: retired until the hour hand should summon him once more.
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  Speaker 7: To very few people, not students of birds, is the
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  Speaker 7: cuckoo really known. Its evans in voice is often recognized,
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  Speaker 7: but being a solitary one, even orthenologists have yet to
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  Speaker 7: learn much of its life history. In their habits, the
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  Speaker 7: American and European cuckoos are so similar that whatever of
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: poetry and sentiment has been written of them is appable
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  Speaker 7: alike to either. A delightful account of the species may
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  Speaker 7: be found in Dixon's Bird Life, a book of refreshing
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  Speaker 7: and original observation. The cuckoo is found in the verdant woods,
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: in the coppis, and even on the lonely moors. He
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: flits from one scented tree to another, and utters his
• 28:33
  Speaker 7: notes in company with the wild song of the ring
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  Speaker 7: ussel and the harsh calls of the groves and plover.
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: Though his notes are monotonymous, still no one gives them
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  Speaker 7: this appellation. Now, this little wanderer is held too dear
• 28:47
  Speaker 7: by us all as the harbinger of spring. For aught,
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: but praise to be bestowed on his mellow notes, which,
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: though full and soft, are powerful, and may on a
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: cow morning before the every day hum of human toil begins,
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: be heard a mile away over wood field and lake
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  Speaker 7: toward the summer solstice. His notes are on the wain,
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  Speaker 7: and when he gives them forth we often hear him
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  Speaker 7: utter them, as if laboring under great difficulty, and resembling
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  Speaker 7: the syllables.
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  Speaker 8: Cou coo, coo coo.
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  Speaker 7: On one occasion, Dixon says he heard a cuckoo calling
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: in treble notes cuckoo, cuckoo, inexpressionly soft and beautiful, notably
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  Speaker 7: the latter one. He at first supposed an echo was
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: the cause of these strange notes, the bird being then
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: half a mile away, But he satisfied himself that this
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: was not the case, as the bird came and alighted
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  Speaker 7: on a noble oak a few yards from him, and
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: repeated the notes. The cuckoo utters his notes as he flies,
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  Speaker 7: but only as a rule, when a few yards from
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: the place on which he intends alighting. The opinion is
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: held by some observers that nature has not intended the
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  Speaker 7: cuckoo to build the nest, but influences it to lay
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  Speaker 7: its eggs in the nests of other birds, and entrusts
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  Speaker 7: its young to the care of those species best adapted
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  Speaker 7: to bring them to maturity. But the American species does
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: build the nest and wears its young. Though Audubon gives
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: it a bad character, saying it robs smaller birds of
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  Speaker 7: their eggs. It does not deserve the censor it has received, however,
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  Speaker 7: and it is useful in many ways. Its hatred of
• 30:29
  Speaker 7: the worm is intense, destroying many more than it can eat.
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  Speaker 7: So thoroughly does it do its work that orchards, which
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  Speaker 7: three years ago were almost leafless the trunks, even being
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  Speaker 7: covered by slippery webbing, are again yielding a good crop.
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  Speaker 7: In September and October. The cuckoo is silent and suddenly disappears.
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  Speaker 7: He seldom sees the lovely tints of autumn, and never
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: hears the wintry stormwind's voice. For impelled by a resistant impulse,
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: he winks his way affair over mountain, stream and sea,
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  Speaker 7: to a land where northern blasts are not felt, and
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  Speaker 7: where a summer sun is shining in a cloudless sky.
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  Speaker 7: And in section seven. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 9: Section eight of Birds, Volume two, number three, September eighteen
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  Speaker 9: ninety seven, recorded for Liebrevox dot Org by Jenbroda. The
• 31:32
  Speaker 9: ruby throated hummingbird. Is it a gem half bird? Or
• 31:37
  Speaker 9: is it a bird half gem? At gerfawset. Of all
• 31:42
  Speaker 9: animated beans, this is the most elegant in form and
• 31:46
  Speaker 9: the most brilliant in colours, says the great naturalist Bouffon.
• 31:51
  Speaker 9: The stones and metals polished by our arts are not
• 31:54
  Speaker 9: comparable to this jewel of nature. She has at least
• 31:58
  Speaker 9: in size of the order of birds Maxime Miranda Enminimus.
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  Speaker 9: Her masterpiece is the humming bird, and upon it she
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  Speaker 9: has heaped all the gifts which the other birds may
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  Speaker 9: only share. Lightness, rapidity, nimbleness, grace and rich apparel all
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  Speaker 9: belong to this little favorite. The emerald, the ruby, and
• 32:22
  Speaker 9: the topaz gleam upon its dress. It never soils them
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  Speaker 9: with the dust of earth, and its aerial life scarcely
• 32:29
  Speaker 9: touches the turf. An instant, always in the air, flying
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  Speaker 9: from flower to flower, it has their freshness as well
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  Speaker 9: as their brightness. It lives upon their nectar, and dwells
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  Speaker 9: only in the climates where they perennially bloom. All kinds
• 32:46
  Speaker 9: of hummingbirds are found in the hottest countries of the
• 32:49
  Speaker 9: New World. They are quite numerous and seem to be
• 32:52
  Speaker 9: confined between the two tropics. For those which penetrate the
• 32:56
  Speaker 9: temperate zones in summer stay there only a short time.
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  Speaker 9: They seem to follow the sun in its advance and
• 33:03
  Speaker 9: retreat and fly to the zephyr wing after an eternal spring.
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  Speaker 9: The smaller species of the humming birds are less in
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  Speaker 9: size than the great fly wasp, and more slender than
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  Speaker 9: the drone. Their beak is a fine needle, and their
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  Speaker 9: tongue a slender thread. Their little black eyes are like
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  Speaker 9: two shining points, and the feathers of their wings so
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  Speaker 9: delicate that they seem transparent. Their short feet, which they
• 33:30
  Speaker 9: use very little, are so tiny one can scarcely see them.
• 33:35
  Speaker 9: They rarely alight during the day. They have a swift,
• 33:38
  Speaker 9: continual humming flight. The movement of their wings is so
• 33:43
  Speaker 9: rapid that when pausing in the air, the bird seems
• 33:46
  Speaker 9: quite motionless. One sees him stop before a blossom, then
• 33:50
  Speaker 9: dart like a flash to another, visiting all, plunging his
• 33:54
  Speaker 9: tongue into their hearts, flattening them with his wings, never
• 33:58
  Speaker 9: settling anywhere, but neglecting none. He hastens his inconstancies only
• 34:04
  Speaker 9: to pursue his loves more eagerly, and to multiply his
• 34:08
  Speaker 9: innocent joys. For this light lover of flower lives at
• 34:12
  Speaker 9: their expense, without ever blighting them. He only pumps their honey,
• 34:16
  Speaker 9: and for this alone his tongue seems designed. The vivacity
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  Speaker 9: of these small birds is only equalled by their courage,
• 34:24
  Speaker 9: or rather their audacity. Sometimes they may be seen furiously
• 34:29
  Speaker 9: chasing birds twenty times their size, fastening upon their bodies,
• 34:33
  Speaker 9: letting themselves be carried along in flight, while they pick
• 34:37
  Speaker 9: fiercely until their tiny rage is satisfied. Sometimes they fight
• 34:41
  Speaker 9: each other vigorously. In patience seems their very essence. If
• 34:47
  Speaker 9: they approach a blossom to find it faded, they mark
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  Speaker 9: their spite by a hasty rendering of the petals. Their
• 34:54
  Speaker 9: only voice is a weak cry of screp screep, frequently
• 34:58
  Speaker 9: and repeated, which they utter in the woods from dawn
• 35:01
  Speaker 9: until the first rays of the sun, they all take
• 35:04
  Speaker 9: flight and scatter over the country. The ruby throat is
• 35:08
  Speaker 9: the only native humming bird of eastern North America, where
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  Speaker 9: it is a common summer resident from May to October.
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  Speaker 9: Breeding from Florida, to Labrador. The nest is a circle
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  Speaker 9: an inch and a half in diameter, made of fern wood,
• 35:24
  Speaker 9: plant down and so forth, shingled with lichen to match
• 35:28
  Speaker 9: the color of the branch on which it rests. Its
• 35:31
  Speaker 9: only note is a shrill mouse like squeak end of
• 35:36
  Speaker 9: section eight. This recording is in the public domain.
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: Section nine of Birds, volume two, number three, September eighteen
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: ninety seven, recorded for theebrivox dot Org by Lyndaree Nielsen, Vancouver, BC.
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: The house Wren. All the children, it seems to me,
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: are familiar with the habits of Johnny and Jenny Wren,
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: and many of them, especially such as have had some
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: experience with country life, could themselves tell a story of
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: these mites of birds. Mister F. Saunders tells me. Perhaps
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: you may think that wren is so small a bird
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: he cannot sing much of a song, But he can.
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: The way we first began to notice him was by
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: seeing our pet cat jumping about the yard, dodging first
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: one way and then another, then darting up a tree,
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: looking surprised, and disappointingly jumping down again. Pussy had found
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: a new playmate for the little wren. Evidently thought a
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: great fun to fly down just in front of her
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: and dart away before she could reach him, leading her
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: from one spot to another, hovering above her head, chattering
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  Speaker 6: to her all the time, and at last flying up
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: far out of her reach. This he repeated day after
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: day for some time, seeming to enjoy the fun of
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: disappointing her so nicely and easily. But after a while
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: the little fellow thought he would like a playmate nearer
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: his own size, and went off to find one. But
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: he came back all alone and perched himself on the
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: very tip top of a lightning rod on a high
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: barn at the back of the yard, And there he
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: would sing his sweet little trilling song hour after hour,
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: hardly stopping long enough to find food for his meals.
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: We wondered that he did not grow tired of it.
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: For about a week we watched him closely, and one
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: day I came running into the house to tell the
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: rest of the family with surprise and delight that our
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: little wren knew what he was about, for with his
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: winning song, he had called a mate to him. He
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: led her to the tree where he had played with Pussy,
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: and they began building a nest but Pussy watched then
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: as well as we, and meant to have her revenge
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: upon him. Yet, so she sprang into the tree, tore
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: the nest to pieces, and tried to catch Jenny. The
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: birds rebuilt their nest three times, and finally we came
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: to the rescue and placed a box in a safe
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: place under the eaves of the house, and mister Wren,
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: with his keen shrewd eyes, soon saw and appropriated it.
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: There they stayed and raised a pretty family, a birdie's,
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: and I hope he taught them as he did me,
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: a lesson in perseverance I'll never forget in a section nine.
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  Speaker 6: This recording is in the public domain.
• 39:21
  Speaker 9: Section ten of Birds, volume two, number three, September eighteen
• 39:26
  Speaker 9: ninety seven, recorded for librevox dot org by Jenbrooda the
• 39:32
  Speaker 9: ruby throated humming bird. Dear young folks, I fancy you
• 39:37
  Speaker 9: think I cannot stop long enough to tell you a story,
• 39:40
  Speaker 9: even about myself. It is true. I am always busy
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: with the flowers, drinking their honey with my long bill,
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: as you must be busy with your books. If you
• 39:50
  Speaker 9: would learn what they teach. I always select for my
• 39:54
  Speaker 9: food the sweetest flowers that grow in the garden. Do
• 39:57
  Speaker 9: you think you would be vain if you had my
• 40:00
  Speaker 9: beautiful colors to wear? Of course you would not. But
• 40:03
  Speaker 9: so many of my brothers and sisters have been destroyed
• 40:06
  Speaker 9: to adorn the bonnets and head dresses of the thoughtless,
• 40:10
  Speaker 9: that the children cannot be too early taught to love
• 40:13
  Speaker 9: us too well to do us harm. Have you ever
• 40:16
  Speaker 9: seen a ruby? It is one of the most valued
• 40:19
  Speaker 9: of gems. It is the color of my throat, and
• 40:22
  Speaker 9: from its rare and brilliant beauty I get a part
• 40:25
  Speaker 9: of my name. The ruby is worn by great ladies,
• 40:29
  Speaker 9: and with the emerald and topaz, whose bright colors I
• 40:32
  Speaker 9: also wear, is much esteemed as an ornament. If you
• 40:37
  Speaker 9: will come into the garden in the late afternoon, between
• 40:40
  Speaker 9: six and seven o'clock, when I am taking my supper,
• 40:43
  Speaker 9: and when the sun is beginning to close his great eye,
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: you will see his rays shoot sidewise and show all
• 40:49
  Speaker 9: the splendor of my plumage. You will see me too,
• 40:53
  Speaker 9: if your eyes are sharp enough. Draw up my tiny claws,
• 40:57
  Speaker 9: pause in front of a rose, and remain seemingly motionless.
• 41:01
  Speaker 9: But listen, and you will hear the reason for my name.
• 41:05
  Speaker 9: A tense humming sound. Some call me a hummer. Indeed,
• 41:10
  Speaker 9: I spend only half the year in the garden, coming
• 41:13
  Speaker 9: in May and saying farewell in October. After my mate
• 41:17
  Speaker 9: and I are gone, you may find our nest, but
• 41:19
  Speaker 9: your eyes will be sharp, indeed if they detect it
• 41:22
  Speaker 9: when the leaves are on the trees. It is so
• 41:25
  Speaker 9: small and blends with the branches. We use fern wool
• 41:29
  Speaker 9: and soft down to build it, and shingle it with
• 41:32
  Speaker 9: lichens to match the branch. At nests upon you should
• 41:36
  Speaker 9: see the tiny eggs of pure white. But we our nest,
• 41:40
  Speaker 9: and our eggs are so dainty and delicate that they
• 41:43
  Speaker 9: should never be touched. We are only to be looked
• 41:47
  Speaker 9: at and admired. Farewell, look for me when you go
• 41:51
  Speaker 9: a main ruby. End of section ten. This recording is
• 41:57
  Speaker 9: in the public.
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: Domain Section eleven of Birds, Volume two, number three, September
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: eighteen ninety seven, recorded for thebrivox dot Org by Lyndamine Nilssen, Vancouver, BC.
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: The House Wren. It was a merry time when Jenny
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: Wren was young, when prettily she looked, and sweetly too,
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: she sung in looking over an old memorandum book. The
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: other day says Colonel S. T. Walker of Florida. I
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: came across the following notes concerning the nesting of the
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: house wren. I was sick at the time and watched
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: the whole proceeding from the laying of the first stick
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: to the conclusion. The nest was placed in one of
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: the pigeonholes of my desk, and the birds effected an
• 42:59
  Speaker 6: entrance to the room through sundry cracks in the log cabin.
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: Nest begun April fifteenth, nest completed, and first egg laid
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: April twenty seventh. Last egg laid May. Third began sitting
• 43:17
  Speaker 6: May fourth. Hatching completed May eighteenth. Young began to fly
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: May twenty seventh. Young left the nest June first. Total
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: time occupied forty seven days. Such is the usual time
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: required for bringing forth a brood of this species of wren,
• 43:39
  Speaker 6: which is the best known of the family. In the
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: Atlantic States. It is more numerous than in the far West,
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: where wooded localities are its chosen haunts, and where it
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: is equally at home in the cottonwoods of the river
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: valleys and on the aspens just below the timber line
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: on lofty mountains. Missus osgood Wright says very quaintly that
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: the house wren is a bird who has allowed the
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: word mail to be obliterated from its social constitution, at least,
• 44:15
  Speaker 6: that we always speak of Jenny Wren, always refer to
• 44:20
  Speaker 6: the wren as she, as we do of a ship.
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: That it is Johnny Wren who sings and disports himself generally,
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: but it is Jenny who, by dint of much scolding
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: and fussing, keeps herself well to the front. She chooses
• 44:40
  Speaker 6: the building site and settles all the little domestic details.
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: If Johnny does not like her choice, he may go
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: away and stay away. She will remain where she has
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: taken up her abode and make a second matrimonial venture.
• 44:58
  Speaker 6: The house wren's song is a merry one, sudden, abruptly ended,
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: and frequently repeated. It is heard from the middle of
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: April to October, and upon the bird's arrival it at
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: once sets about preparing its nest, a loose heap of
• 45:17
  Speaker 6: sticks with a soft lining. It holds boxes and the like.
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  Speaker 6: From six to ten tiny cream colored eggs are laid
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  Speaker 6: so thickly spotted with brown that the whole egg is tinged.
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: The house wren is not only one of our most
• 45:35
  Speaker 6: interesting and familiar neighbors. But it is useful as an
• 45:40
  Speaker 6: exterminator of insects upon which it feeds. Frequently it seeses
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: small butterflies when on the wing. We have in mind
• 45:51
  Speaker 6: a sick child whose convalescence was hastened and cheered by
• 45:56
  Speaker 6: the near by presence of the merry house wren, which
• 46:00
  Speaker 6: sings its sweet little trilling song hour after hour, hardly
• 46:05
  Speaker 6: stopping long enough to find food for its meals, and
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  Speaker 6: of section eleven. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 10: Section twelve of Birds, Volume two, number three, September eighteen
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  Speaker 10: ninety seven, recorded for LibriVox dot Org by Lari Wilson.
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  Speaker 10: The Phoebe off the Phoebe's cheery notes, Wake the laboring swain, come, come,
• 46:41
  Speaker 10: say the merry throats. Morn is here again, Phoebe, Phoebe,
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  Speaker 10: let them sing for a calling him to labor at
• 46:48
  Speaker 10: the break of day c.
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  Speaker 9: C M.
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  Speaker 10: Nearly everywhere in the United States we find this cheerful bird,
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  Speaker 10: known as peewee barn, peewee, bridge peewee, or phoebe or
• 47:03
  Speaker 10: pea witt flycatcher. It is one of that charming coterie
• 47:07
  Speaker 10: of the feathered tribe who cheer the abode of man
• 47:09
  Speaker 10: with their presence. There are few farm yards without a
• 47:13
  Speaker 10: pair of peewees, who do the farmer much service by
• 47:16
  Speaker 10: lessening the number of flies about the barn, and by
• 47:19
  Speaker 10: calling him to his work in the morning by their
• 47:22
  Speaker 10: cheery notes. Doctor Brewer says that this species is attracted
• 47:26
  Speaker 10: both to the vicinity of water and to the neighborhood
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  Speaker 10: of dwellings, probably for the same reason the abundance of
• 47:34
  Speaker 10: insects in either situation. They are a familiar, confiding and
• 47:38
  Speaker 10: gentle bird, attached to localities and returning to them year
• 47:43
  Speaker 10: after year. Their nests are found in sheltered situations, as
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  Speaker 10: under a bridge, a projecting rock, in the porches of houses,
• 47:51
  Speaker 10: et cetera. They have been known to build on a
• 47:54
  Speaker 10: small shelf in the porch of a dwelling, against the
• 47:57
  Speaker 10: wall of a railroad station, within reach of the passenger,
• 48:00
  Speaker 10: and under a projecting window sill in full view of
• 48:03
  Speaker 10: the family, entirely unmoved by the presence of the latter.
• 48:06
  Speaker 10: At a meal time. Like all the flycatcher family, the
• 48:09
  Speaker 10: phoebe takes its food mostly flying. Missus Wright says that
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  Speaker 10: the peewee in his primitive state, haunts dim woods and
• 48:17
  Speaker 10: running water, and that when domesticated, he is a great
• 48:20
  Speaker 10: bather and may be seen in the half flight, dashing
• 48:23
  Speaker 10: in and out of the water as he makes trips
• 48:26
  Speaker 10: to and from the nest. After the young are hatched,
• 48:29
  Speaker 10: both old and young disport themselves about the water until
• 48:33
  Speaker 10: molting time. She advises, do not let the phoebees build
• 48:37
  Speaker 10: under the hoods of your windows, for their spongy nests
• 48:41
  Speaker 10: harbor innumerable bird lice, and under such circumstances your fly
• 48:46
  Speaker 10: screens will become infested in the house invaded in its
• 48:49
  Speaker 10: native woods. The nest is of moss, mud, and grass,
• 48:52
  Speaker 10: placed on a rock near and over running water, but
• 48:56
  Speaker 10: in the vicinity of settlements and villages it is built
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  Speaker 10: on a horizontal bridge beam or on timber supporting a
• 49:03
  Speaker 10: porch or shed. The eggs are pure white, somewhat spotted.
• 49:07
  Speaker 10: The notes to some ears are phoebe pheeb beewet phoebe,
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  Speaker 10: to others of somewhat duller sense of hearing, perhaps pee
• 49:15
  Speaker 10: wee pee wee peewee. We confess to a fancy that
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  Speaker 10: the latter is the better. Imitation into section twelve. This
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  Speaker 10: recording is in the public Domain.
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  Speaker 2: Section thirteen of Birds, Volume two, number three, September eighteen
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  Speaker 2: ninety seven, recorded for LibriVox dot org by Betty B.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: The ruby crowned kinglet Basquet says that the kinglets come
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: at a certain early spring date before the leaves are
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: fully expanded, and flutter upward while they take something from
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: beneath the budding leaf or twig. It is a peculiar
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: motion which, with their restless ways, olive green color, and
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: small size, readily distinguishes them. It is rare that one
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: is still. But the ruby crowned sometimes favors me with
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: a song, and as it is a little long, he
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: usually is quiet till done. It is one of the sweetest,
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: little lullaby like strains. One day I saw him in
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: the rose bush just near voluntarily expand the plumage of
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: his crown and show the brilliant golden ruby feathers beneath.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Usually they are mostly concealed. It was a rare treat,
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: and visible to me only because of my rather exalted view.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: He generally reserves this display for his mate, but he
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: was here among some snow birds and tree sparrows, and
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: seemed to be trying to make these plain folks envious
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: of the pretty feathers in his hat. These wonderfully dainty
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: little birds are of great value to the farmer and
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: the fruit grower, doing good work among all classes of
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: fruit trees by killing rubs and larvae. In spite of
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: their value. In this respect, they have been, in common
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: with many other attractive birds, recklessly killed for millinery purposes.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: It is curious to see these busy wanders, who are
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: always cheery and sociable, come prying and peering about the
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: fruit trees, examining every little nook of possible concealment with
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: the greatest interest. They do not stay long after November,
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: and return again in April. The nest of this kinglet
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: is rarely seen. It is of matted hair, feathers, moss
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: et cetera, bulky, round and partly hanging. Until recently the
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: eggs were unknown. They are of a dirty cream white,
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: deepening at larger end to form a ring, some specimens
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: being spotted. Mister Nerling, who has heard this kinglet sing
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: in central Wisconsin and northern Illinois, speaks of the power,
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: purity and volume of the notes, their faultless modulation and
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: long continuance, and doctor Elliott Coos says of it, the
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: Kinglet's exquisite vocalization defies description. Doctor Brewer says that its
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: song is clear, resonant, and high, a prolonged series, bearing
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: from the lowest tones to the highest and terminating with
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: the latter. It may be heard at quite a distance,
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: and in some respects bears more resemblance to the song
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: of the English skylark than to that of the canary
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  Speaker 2: to which mister Audubon compares it. End of section thirteen.
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  Speaker 2: This recording is in the public domain.
• 52:44
  Speaker 7: Section fourteen of Birds, Volume two, number three, September eighteen
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  Speaker 7: ninety seven, recorded for LibriVox dot Org by amb Sweet thirteen.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, dove, dear young bird lovers. Most every person
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  Speaker 7: thinks that while my actions are very pretty and attractive
• 53:07
  Speaker 7: and speak much in my favor, I can only really
• 53:11
  Speaker 7: say coo coo, which they also think does not mean
• 53:16
  Speaker 7: anything at all. Well, I just thought that I would
• 53:20
  Speaker 7: undeceive them by writing you a letter. Many grown up
• 53:24
  Speaker 7: people fancy that we birds cannot express ourselves because we
• 53:28
  Speaker 7: don't know very much. Of course, there's a good reason
• 53:32
  Speaker 7: why they have this poor opinion of us. They are
• 53:35
  Speaker 7: so busy with their own private concerns, that they forget
• 53:38
  Speaker 7: that there are little creatures like ourselves in the world, who,
• 53:42
  Speaker 7: if they would take a little time to become acquaintance
• 53:45
  Speaker 7: with them, would fill their few hours of leisure with
• 53:48
  Speaker 7: a sweeter recreation than they find in many of their
• 53:51
  Speaker 7: chosen outings. A great English poet, whose writings you will
• 53:56
  Speaker 7: read when you get older, said you should look through
• 53:59
  Speaker 7: nature to Nature's God. What did he mean? I think
• 54:04
  Speaker 7: he had us birds in his mind. For it is
• 54:07
  Speaker 7: through a study of our habits, more perhaps than that
• 54:10
  Speaker 7: of the voiceless trees or the dumb four footed creatures
• 54:13
  Speaker 7: that roam in the fields, that your hearts are opened
• 54:16
  Speaker 7: to see and admire real beauty. We birds are the
• 54:21
  Speaker 7: true teachers of faith, hope, and charity. Faith because we
• 54:25
  Speaker 7: trust one another, hope, because even when our mother nature
• 54:29
  Speaker 7: seems unkind, sending the drifting snow and the bitter blests
• 54:33
  Speaker 7: of winter, we sing a song of summertime and charity.
• 54:37
  Speaker 7: Because we are never false finders. I believe, without knowing it,
• 54:42
  Speaker 7: I have been telling you about myself and my mate.
• 54:45
  Speaker 7: We doves are very sincere, and everyone says we are constant.
• 54:50
  Speaker 7: If you live in the country each othern you must
• 54:53
  Speaker 7: often hear our voices. We are so tender and fond
• 54:56
  Speaker 7: of each other that we are looked upon as models
• 54:59
  Speaker 7: for chi and even grown up folks. My mate does
• 55:03
  Speaker 7: not build a very nice nest, only uses a few
• 55:06
  Speaker 7: sticks to keep the eggs from falling out, but she
• 55:09
  Speaker 7: is a good mother and nurses the little ones very tenderly.
• 55:13
  Speaker 7: Some people are so kind that they build for us
• 55:16
  Speaker 7: a dovecot, supply us with wheat and corn, and make
• 55:20
  Speaker 7: our lives as free from care and danger as they can.
• 55:24
  Speaker 7: Come and see us someday, and then you can tell
• 55:27
  Speaker 7: whether my picture is a good one. The artist thinks
• 55:30
  Speaker 7: it is, and he certainly took lots of pains with it. Now,
• 55:34
  Speaker 7: if you will be kind to all birds, you will
• 55:37
  Speaker 7: find me in name only mourning dove. End of section fourteen.
• 55:44
  Speaker 7: This recording is in the public domain.
• 55:52
  Speaker 6: Section fifteen of Birds, Volume two, number three, September eighteen
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  Speaker 6: ninety seven. This is a lebrivox recording. All LibriVox recordings
• 56:03
  Speaker 6: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
• 56:08
  Speaker 6: please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Lindamerie Nielsen, Vancouver,
• 56:14
  Speaker 6: b C. How Birds secured their rights due to Eronomy
• 56:21
  Speaker 6: thirty two six to seven. If a bird's nest chance
• 56:26
  Speaker 6: to be before thee in the way, in any tree,
• 56:30
  Speaker 6: or on the ground, young ones or eggs, and the
• 56:35
  Speaker 6: dam sitting upon the young or upon the eggs, thou
• 56:40
  Speaker 6: shalt not take the dam with the young, But thou shalt,
• 56:45
  Speaker 6: in any wise let the dam go, that it may
• 56:49
  Speaker 6: be well with thee, and that thou may prolong thy days.
• 56:55
  Speaker 6: It is said that the following petition was instrumental in
• 56:59
  Speaker 6: securing the adoption in Massachusetts of a law prohibiting the
• 57:04
  Speaker 6: wearing of song and insectivorous birds on women's hats. It
• 57:10
  Speaker 6: is stated that the interesting document was prepared by United
• 57:15
  Speaker 6: States Senator Orr. The foregoing verse of scripture might have
• 57:20
  Speaker 6: been quoted by the petitioning birds to strengthen their position
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  Speaker 6: before the lawmakers to the Great and General Court of
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  Speaker 6: the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. We the song birds of Massachusetts
• 57:35
  Speaker 6: and their playfellows, make this our humble petition. We know
• 57:40
  Speaker 6: more about you than you think we do. We know
• 57:45
  Speaker 6: how good you are. We have hopped about the roofs
• 57:49
  Speaker 6: and looked in at the windows of the houses you
• 57:53
  Speaker 6: have built for poor and sick and hungry people, and
• 57:57
  Speaker 6: little lame and deaf and blind children. We have built
• 58:01
  Speaker 6: our nests in the trees and sung many a song
• 58:05
  Speaker 6: as we flew about the gardens and parks you have
• 58:08
  Speaker 6: made so beautiful for your children, especially your poor children,
• 58:14
  Speaker 6: to play in. Every year, we fly a great way
• 58:18
  Speaker 6: over the country, keeping all the time where the sun
• 58:22
  Speaker 6: is bright and warm. And we know that whenever you
• 58:27
  Speaker 6: do anything the other people all over there's great land
• 58:31
  Speaker 6: between the seas and the great lakes find it out,
• 58:36
  Speaker 6: and pretty soon we'll try to do the same. We know,
• 58:40
  Speaker 6: we know, we are Americans, just the same as you are.
• 58:45
  Speaker 6: Some of us, like some of you, came across the
• 58:48
  Speaker 6: great Sea, but most of the birds like us have
• 58:52
  Speaker 6: lived here a long while. And the birds like us
• 58:56
  Speaker 6: welcome your fathers when they came here many many years ago.
• 59:02
  Speaker 6: Our fathers and mothers have always done their best to
• 59:05
  Speaker 6: please your fathers and mothers. Now we have a sad
• 59:11
  Speaker 6: story to tell you. Thoughtless or bad people are trying
• 59:15
  Speaker 6: to destroy us. They kill us because our feathers are beautiful.
• 59:20
  Speaker 6: Even pretty and sweet girls who we should think would
• 59:26
  Speaker 6: be our best friends, kill our brothers and children so
• 59:30
  Speaker 6: that they may wear our plumage on their hats. Sometimes
• 59:34
  Speaker 6: people kill us from mere wantonness. Cruel boys destroy our
• 59:39
  Speaker 6: nests and steal our eggs and our young ones. People
• 59:43
  Speaker 6: with guns and snares lie in wait to kill us,
• 59:48
  Speaker 6: as if the place for a bird were not in
• 59:51
  Speaker 6: the sky alive, but in a shop window or in
• 59:55
  Speaker 6: a glass case. If this goes on much longer, all
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 6: our song birds will be gone. Already, we are told
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 6: in some other countries that use to be full of birds,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 6: they are now almost gone. Even the nightingales are being
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 6: killed in Italy. Now we humbly pray that you will
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 6: stop all this and will save us from this sad fate.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 6: You have already made a law that no one shall
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 6: kill a harmless song bird, or destroy our nests or
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 6: our eggs. Will you please make another one that no
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 6: one shall wear our feathers, so that no one shall
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 6: kill us to get them. We want them all ourselves.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 6: Your pretty girls are pretty enough without them. We are
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 6: told that it is as easy for you to do
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 6: it as for a blackbird to whistle. If you will,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 6: we know how to pay you a hundred times over.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 6: We will teach your children to keep themselves clean and neat.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 6: We will show them how to live together in peace
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 6: and love, and to agree as we do in our nests.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 6: We will build pretty houses which you will like to see.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 6: We will play about your garden and flower beds our cells,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 6: like flowers on wings, without any cost to you. We
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 6: will play about your garden and flower beds ourselves, like
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 6: flowers on wings, without any cost to you. We will
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 6: destroy the wicked insects and worms that spoil your cherries
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 6: and currants and plums and apples and roses. We will
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 6: give you our best songs and make the spring more
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 6: beautiful and the summer sweeter to you. Every June morning,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 6: when you go out into the field, oriel and bluebird
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 6: and blackbird and bobble link will fly after you and
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 6: make the more delightful to you. And when you go
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 6: home tired after sundown, vesper sparrow will tell you how
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 6: grateful we are. When you sit down on your porch
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 6: after dark, fife bird and hermit thrush and wood thrush
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 6: will sing to you, and even whip poor will will
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 6: cheer you up a little. We know where we are safe.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 6: In a little while, all the birds will come to
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 6: live in Massachusetts again, and everybody who loves music will
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 6: like to make a summer home with you. The singers
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 6: are brown thrasher, king bird, Robert o'lincoln, swallow, vesper, sparrow,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 6: cedar bird, hermit, thrush, cowbird, robin, redbreast, martin song sparrow,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 6: very scarlet, tanaguir verra, summer redbird, oreo, blue heron, blackbird, hummingbird, fifebird,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 6: yellow bird, wren, whit poor, will linnet walter, wagtail, peewee, woodpecker,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 6: phoebe pigeon, woodpecker, yokebird, indigo bird, lark, yellow throat, sandpiper,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 6: Wilson's thrush, chew ink, chickadee. End of section fifteen. Recording
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 6: by Lynjamree Nielsen, Vancouver BC.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 8: Section sixteen of Birds, Volume two, number three, September eighteen
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 8: ninety seven. Redfliveryvox dot org by Alum Mapstone, The Captive's Escape.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 8: I saw such a sorrowful sight, my DearS, such a
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 8: sad and sorrowful sight. As I lingered under the swaying
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 8: vines in the silvery morning lights. The skies were so blue,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 8: and the sky was so fair with beautiful things untold,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 8: you would think no sad and sorrowful thing could enter
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 8: its heart of gold. A fairy like cage was hanging there,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 8: so gay with turret and dome. You'd be sure a
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 8: birdie would gladly make such a beautiful place its home.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 8: But a wee little yellow bird sadly chirked as it
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 8: fluttered to and fro. I know it was longing with
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 8: all its heart to its wildwood home to go. I
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 8: heard a whir of swift rushing wings and an answering,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 8: gladsome note. As close to its nestling prison bars, I
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 8: saw the poor mother bird float. I saw her flutter
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 8: and strive in vain to open the prison door, then
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 8: sadly cling with drooping wing, as if all her hopes
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 8: were ore. But ere I could reach the prison house
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 8: and let its sweet captive free, she was gone, like
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 8: a yellow flash of light, to her home in a
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 8: distant tree. Poor birdie, I thought, you surely shall go
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 8: when Mamma comes back again, for it hurt me so
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 8: that so small a thing should suffer so much pain.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 8: And back in a moment she came again and close
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 8: to her darling side with a bitter sweet drop of
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 8: honey dew, which she dropped in its mouth so wide,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 8: then away with a strange, wild, mournful note of sorrow,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 8: which seemed to say goodbye, my darling, my Birdie, dear
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 8: goodbye for many a day. A quick, wild flutter of
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 8: tiny wings, a faint, low chirp of pain, a throb
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 8: of the little aching heart, and Birdie was free again.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 8: Oh sorrowful, anguished mother heart. Twas all that she could do.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 8: She had set it free from a captive's life in.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 11: The only way she knew. Poor little Birdie, it never
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 11: will fly on tiny and tireless wings through the pearly
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 11: blue of the summer sky, or sing the sweet songs
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 11: of spring. And I think, little DearS, if you had
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 11: seen the same sad, sorrowful sight, you never would cage
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 11: a free wild bird to suffer a captive's plights Morrison,
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  Speaker 11: end of section sixteen. This recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: Section seventeen of Birds, Volume two, number three, September eighteen
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: ninety seven, recorded for LibriVox dot Org by Betty B.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: The white breasted nuthatch Nearly everyone readily recognizes this species
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: as it runs up and down and around the branches
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: and trunks of trees in search of insect food now
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: and then uttering its curious quark quawk qualk. The white
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: breasted nuthatch is often improperly called sapsucker, a name commonly
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: applied to the downy woodpecker and others.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 8: It is a.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: Common breeding bird and usually begins nesting early in April,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: and two broods are frequently reared in a season. For
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: its nesting place, it usually selects the decayed trunk of
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: a tree or stub, ranging all the way from two
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: to sixty feet above the ground. The entrance may be
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: a nut hole, a small opening, or small round hole
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: with a larger cavity at the end of it. Often,
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: the old excavation of the downy woodpecker is made use
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: of chicken feathers, hair, and a few dry leaves loosely
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: thrown together compose the nest. This nuthatch is abundant throughout
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  Speaker 2: the state of Illinois and is a permanent resident everywhere,
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  Speaker 2: except perhaps of the extreme northern counties. It seems to
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  Speaker 2: migrate in spring and return in autumn, but in reality,
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  Speaker 2: as is well known, only retreats to the woodlands to breed,
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  Speaker 2: emerging again when the food supply grows scant in the autumn.
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  Speaker 2: The nuthatches associate familiarly with the kinglets and tit mice,
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  Speaker 2: and often travel with them. Though regarded as shy birds,
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  Speaker 2: they are not really so. Their habits of restlessness render
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  Speaker 2: them difficult of examination. Tree mice is the local name
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  Speaker 2: given them by the farmers, and would be very appropriate.
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  Speaker 2: Could they sometimes remain as motionless as that diminutive animal.
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  Speaker 2: Careful observation has disclosed that the nuthatches do not suck
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  Speaker 2: the sap from trees, but that they knock off bits
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  Speaker 2: of decayed or loose bark with the beak to obtain
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  Speaker 2: the grubs of larvae beneath. They are beneficial to vegetation.
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  Speaker 2: Ignorance is responsible for the misapplied names given to many
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  Speaker 2: of our well disposed and useful birds, and it would
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  Speaker 2: be well if teachers were to discourage the use of
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  Speaker 2: inappropriate names and familiarize the children with those recognized by
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  Speaker 2: the best authorities. Referring to the nuthatches, mister Basquet says
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  Speaker 2: they are little bluish gray birds with white undervests, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: a little soiled. Their tails are ridiculously short and never
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  Speaker 2: touch the tree, neither does the body unless they are
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  Speaker 2: suddenly affrighted when they crouch and look with their beaks extended,
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  Speaker 2: much like a knot with a broken twig on it.
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  Speaker 2: I have sometimes put the bird into this attitude by
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  Speaker 2: clapping my hands loudly near the window. It is an
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  Speaker 2: impulse that seems to come to the bird before flight,
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  Speaker 2: especially if the head should be downward. His arrival is sudden,
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  Speaker 2: and seems often to be distinguished by turning a somersault
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  Speaker 2: before alighting, head downward on the tree trunk, as if
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  Speaker 2: he had changed his mind so suddenly about alighting that
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  Speaker 2: it unbalanced him. I once saw two nut hatches at
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  Speaker 2: what I then supposed was a new habit. One spring day,
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  Speaker 2: some gnats were engaged in their little crazy love waltzes
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  Speaker 2: in the air, forming small whirling clouds, and the birds
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  Speaker 2: left off bark probing and began capturing insects on the wing.
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  Speaker 2: They were awkward about it with their short wings, and
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  Speaker 2: had to allied frequently to rest. I went out to them,
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  Speaker 2: and so absorbed were they that they allowed me to
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  Speaker 2: approach within a yard of a limb that they came
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  Speaker 2: to rest upon, where they would sit and pant till
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  Speaker 2: they caught their breath. When they went to it again.
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  Speaker 2: They seemed fairly to revel in a new diet and
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  Speaker 2: a new exercise end of section seventeen. This recording is
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  Speaker 2: in the public domain.
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  Speaker 6: Section eighteen of Birds, Volume two, number three, September eighteen
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  Speaker 6: ninety seven, recorded for LibriVox dot org by Lynda Marie Nielsen, Vancouver, BC.
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  Speaker 6: Summary yellow warbler dan du Roika estiva, other names, summer
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  Speaker 6: yellow bird, wild canary, yellow pole warbler. Range the whole
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  Speaker 6: of North America, breathing throughout its range in winter, the
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  Speaker 6: whole of Middle America and northern South America. Nest built
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  Speaker 6: in an apple tree, cup shaped, neat and compact composed
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  Speaker 6: of plant fibers, bark, et cetera, eggs four or five.
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  Speaker 6: Greenish white spotted hermit thrush turtis Elonondaski palacil, other names,
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  Speaker 6: swamp angel, ground, swamp robin. Range Eastern North America, breeding
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  Speaker 6: from northern United States northward, wintering from about latitude forty
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  Speaker 6: degrees to the Gulf Coast. Nest on the ground in
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  Speaker 6: some low secluded spot, beneath shelter of deep shrubbery, bulky
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  Speaker 6: and loosely made of leaves, bark, grasses, mosses, lined was
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  Speaker 6: similar finer material. Eggs three or four of greenish blue.
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  Speaker 6: Unspotted song sparrow mellow Spiza phacatta range eastern United States
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  Speaker 6: and British Provinces west to the plains, breeding chiefly north
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  Speaker 6: of forty degrees, except east of the Alleghenies. Nest on
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  Speaker 6: the ground or in low bushes of grasses, weeds and leaves,
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  Speaker 6: lined with fine grass stems, roots, and in some cases hair.
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  Speaker 6: Eggs four to seven, varying in color from greenish or
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  Speaker 6: pinkish white to light bluish green, spotted with dark reddish brown.
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  Speaker 6: Yellow billed cuckoo Caukizas americanus other names rain crow, rained them,
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  Speaker 6: and chou chow range eastern North America to British Provinces,
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  Speaker 6: west to Great Plains, south in winter, West Indies and
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  Speaker 6: Costa Rica. Nest in low tree or bush of dried sticks, bark, strips,
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  Speaker 6: and catkins. Eggs two to four of gloucious green, which
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  Speaker 6: fades on exposure to the light. Ruby throated humming bird
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  Speaker 6: Trochillis colubras range eastern North America to the plains, north
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  Speaker 6: to the fur Countries, and south in winter to Cuba
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  Speaker 6: and Veragua. Nest a circle an inch and a half
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  Speaker 6: in diameter, made of fern wool et cetera, shingled with
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  Speaker 6: lichens to match the color of the branch on which
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  Speaker 6: it is saddled. Eggs two pure white, the size of
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  Speaker 6: soup beans. House wren Trogodites aden range eastern United States
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  Speaker 6: and southern Canada, west of the Mississippi Valley, winters in
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  Speaker 6: southern portions. Nest miscellaneous rubbish sticks, grasses, hay, and the like.
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  Speaker 6: Eggs usually seven white, dotted with reddish brown. Phoebe say
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  Speaker 6: Ornis phoebe, other names, Pewitt peewee range eastern North America
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  Speaker 6: in winter, south to Mexico and Cuba. Nest compactly and
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  Speaker 6: neatly made of mud and vegetable substances, with lining of
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  Speaker 6: grass and feathers. Eggs four or five pure white, sometimes
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  Speaker 6: sparsely spotted with reddish brown dots at larger end. Ruby
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  Speaker 6: crown kinglet, Regulus colindula range entire North America, wintering in
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  Speaker 6: the south and in northern Central America. Nest very rare,
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  Speaker 6: only six known of hair. Feathers. Moss et cetera bulky,
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  Speaker 6: globular and partly pansal. Eggs five to nine dull, whitish
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  Speaker 6: or pale, puffy speckled mourning dove, Zenaidura macura, other names
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  Speaker 6: Carolina dove, turtle dove. Range whole of temperate North America
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  Speaker 6: south to Panama and the West Indies. Nest rim of
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  Speaker 6: twigs sufficient to retain the eggs. Eggs usually two white,
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  Speaker 6: white breasted nut hatch Sitta Carol and nansisname sapsucker, improperly
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  Speaker 6: called range Eastern United States and British provinces. Nest decayed
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  Speaker 6: trunk of tree or stub from two to six feet
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  Speaker 6: from ground, composed of chicken feathers, hair, and dry leaves.
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  Speaker 6: Eggs five to eight white with roseate tinge, speckled with
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  Speaker 6: reddish brown and a slight tinge of purple in of
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  Speaker 6: Section eighteen. This recording is in the public domain. In
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  Speaker 6: A Bird's Volume two, number three, September eighteen ninety seven