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rument of the bird was not under controlor else that one note was sadly out of tuneand
when its turn cameinstead of giving forth one of those sounds that are indeed like pearlsit shocked the ear
with a piercing discord. Yet the singer appeared entirely unconscious of the defect; or had he grown used to it
or had his friends persuaded him that it was a variation to be coveted? Sometimesafter the brood had hatched
and the bird's pride was at its fullhe would make a little triumphal tour of the localitycoming from under the
hill quite up to the houseand flaunting his cracked instrument in the face of whoever would listen. He did not
return again the next season; orif he didthe malformation of his song was gone.
I have noticed that the bobolink does not sing the same in
different localities. In New Jersey it has one song; on the Hudsona slight variation of the same; and on the
high grass-lands of the interior of the Statequite a different strain--clearermore distinctly articulatedand
running off with more sparkle and liltingness. It reminds one of the clearer mountain air and the translucent
spring-water of those localities. I never could make out what the bobolink says in New Jerseybut in certain
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